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🕵️‍♀️ Task

Select the first record from the movies table.

movies

id (integer)
title (string)
year (integer)
duration (integer)
description (text)
image (string)
director_id (integer)

directors

id (integer)
name (string)
dob (date)
bio (text)
image (string)

actors

id (integer)
name (string)
dob (date)
bio (text)
image (string)

characters

id (integer)
actor_id (integer)
movie_id (integer)
name (string)

📖Method

When called on an ActiveRecord::Relation, .first returns the first record from the collection. If the collection is empty, .first returns nil.

Similar methods exist for second, third, fourth, fifth, forty_two, last, second_to_last, and third_to_last.

Data

id	title	year	duration	description	image	director_id

Data

id	name	dob	bio	image

Data

id	name	dob	bio	image
420	Charles Dayton
421	Cecil B. DeMille	1881-08-12	His parents Henry C. DeMill...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
422	Hedda Hopper	1885-05-02	Her father was a butcher. I...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
423	Buster Keaton	1895-10-04	When, at six months, he tum...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
424	Anna Q. Nilsson	1888-03-30	Anna Quirentia Nilsson, pop...
425	Edward Furlong	1977-08-02		http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
426	Beverly D'Angelo	1951-11-15	Intriguing, inspiring, and ...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
519	Michael Chiklis	1963-08-30	Educated at Boston Universi...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...

Data

id	actor_id	movie_id	name
432	390	30	Sheriff Al Chambers
433	391	30	Dr. Fred Richman
434	381	30	Tom Cassidy
435	392	30	Caroline (as Pat Hitchcock)
436	393	30	George Lowery
437	394	30	Mrs. Chambers
438	395	30	California Charlie
439	396	30	Highway Patrol Officer

Examples

Select the first customer from the list of customer records.

customer = Customer.all.first
=> #<Customer id: 1, first_name: "Sierra">

Select the first store from the list of store records.

store = Store.all.first
=> #<Store id: 3, name: "H&M">