Upsert in Rails ActiveRecord

There is an awesome new feature in rails 6: they added upsert and upsert_all to ActiveRecord

More info can be found here https://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Persistence/ClassMethods.html#method-i-upsert_all

Model.find_or_initialize likely does what you want. You can chain it with save or update_attributes if that makes sense.

More info in the Rails Guides.