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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.

You can optionally pass an Integer argument to .first. This will return n number of records from the ActiveRecord::Relation. If the collection is empty when you pass an argument, .first returns an empty Array.

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
59	Aldo Giuffrè	1924-04-10
60	Luigi Pistilli	1929-07-19	Luisi Pistilli's most notab...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
61	Rada Rassimov
62	Enzo Petito	1911-02-19
63	Claudio Scarchilli
64	John Bartha
65	Livio Lorenzon	1923-05-06	Brother of Gianni Solaro.
66	Antonio Casale

Data

id	actor_id	movie_id	name
65	60	5	Father Pablo Ramirez
66	61	5	Maria
67	62	5	Storekeeper
68	63	5	Mexican Peon
69	64	5	Sheriff (as John Bartho)
70	65	5	Baker
71	66	5	Jackson / Bill Carson
72	67	5	Mexican Peon

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">