find_or_create_by_foo_and_bar error (duplicate entry)

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm throwing sql errors on a User.find_or_create_by_foo_and_email call.

I created an index with the following: add_index "users", ["foo_id", "email"], :name => "by_foo_email", :unique => true

Then in a class foo instance method:

user = User.find_or_create_by_foo_id_and_email (self.id,some_email_address)

and I get this error: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (Mysql::Error: Duplicate entry 'joe@yahoo.com' for key 2: : INSERT INTO `users` (`name`, `unsubscribed`, `updated_at`, `unsubscribed_date`, `user_id`, `bounce_date`, `foo_id`, `email`, `created_at`, `bounced`) VALUES (NULL, 0, '2009-03-31 16:04:51', NULL, NULL, NULL, 11, 'joe@yahoo.com', '2009-03-31 16:04:51', 0)

Isn't find_or_create_by() supposed to only create if it can't find?

caveat - I'm running this with workling/starling.

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I think that's just for the primary key.