How to determine if a record is just created or updated in after_save

Question

The #new_record? function determines if a record has been saved. But it is always false in the after_save hook. Is there a way to determine whether the record i

Answer 1

Since the object has already been saved, you would you need to look at the previous changes. The ID should only change after a create.

# true if this is a new record
@object.previous_changes[:id].any?

There is also an instance variable @new_record_before_save. You can access that by doing the following:

# true if this is a new record
@object.instance_variable_get(:@new_record_before_save)

Both are pretty ugly, but they would allow you to know whether the object has been newly created. Hope that helps!