I believe if you do Post.find on a nonexistent id, a ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exception is thrown, but this doesn't happen with the dynamically generated fi

I believe if you do Post.find on a nonexistent id, a ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exception is thrown, but this doesn't happen with the dynamically generated finders like find_by_id. Given this difference, it's possible you want to handle a missing record in a more graceful, non exception catching matter.