automatically create an object if it doesn't exist?

rubyonrails-talk
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I want an action that will take a url like

foo.com/?bar=baz

and check to see if baz exists, and if not, create a new one with bar=baz.

This seems like it should be simple, but I just can't figure it out. I've got the part that redirects to showing the item if it exists, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to redirect this to a create method (which would require using POST instead of GET). any ideas?

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No need to redirect, just do your business in the action:

item = Item.find_or_create_by_name(params[:bar])