Only call Rails Active Record callback on successful model create

Question

I want to add after_create :my_function to one of my models. How can I make sure this method is only called on successful creates or updates?

Answer 1

You'd want to use after_save. This callback is called on both create and updates (or, any call to the save method) so long as the callback chain isn't broken before the save completes (validation errors, etc). You can see some examples in the docs:

http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Callbacks/after_save