How do I pass back an object from a method in Rails 3?

I have the following in my Omniauth callback:

@user = User.find_for_linked_in_oauth(env["omniauth.auth"], current_user)

I expect either way to get a user object. Her is the User method. Right now, I am testing the case where it cannot find an existing User because it hasn't been created yet:

   def self.find_for_linked_in_oauth(omniauth_hash, signed_in_resource=nil)
     debugger
     #omniauth_hash is a hash passed in from env["omniauth_hash"] by callback controller
     linkedin_uid = omniauth_hash['uid']
       debugger
       if user = User.find_by_linkedin_uid(linkedin_uid)
          debugger 
          user
       else # Create an user with a stub password.
         #redirect to a page to ask for an email address and display information
         #User.create!(:email => "token@email.com", :linkedin_uid => linkedin_uid, :password     => Devise.friendly_token[0,20]) 
         user = User.new
         user.first_name = omniauth_hash['user_info']['first_name']
         user.last_name = omniauth_hash['user_info']['last_name']
         user.linkedin_uid = linkedin_uid

         user
         debugger
      end

Currently, with debugger, I get back '1' as the 开发者_如何学Govalue for p @user.

I want the newly created user object to be passed back so I can then ask the current user to add additional information before saving it.

Why am I not getting the newly created user as the value of @user?

try to change places user and debugger so it will return user

 19   def self.find_for_linked_in_oauth(omniauth_hash, signed_in_resource=nil)
 20     debugger
 21     #omniauth_hash is a hash passed in from env["omniauth_hash"] by callback controller
 22     linkedin_uid = omniauth_hash['uid']
 23       debugger
 24       if user = User.find_by_linkedin_uid(linkedin_uid)
 25          debugger 
 26          user
 27       else # Create an user with a stub password.
 28         #redirect to a page to ask for an email address and display information
 29         #User.create!(:email => "token@email.com", :linkedin_uid => linkedin_uid, :password     => Devise.friendly_token[0,20]) 
 30         user = User.new
 31         user.first_name = omniauth_hash['user_info']['first_name']
 32         user.last_name = omniauth_hash['user_info']['last_name']
 33         user.linkedin_uid = linkedin_uid
 34 
 36         debugger
 35         user
 37      end

It could be that the debugger statement is messing things. Try exchanging statements like :

debugger
user

in the end of your function.