railstutorial.org - make new users follow admin users - ruby-on-rails

I've followed Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial making an app like Twitter and I want to change it so that all new users to automatically 'follow' the Admin/s.
I've tried to do it following answers to similar questions here and here, but they throw errors on account creation. Here's the relevant section of my user controller.
Edit: find_all_by_admin is deprecated in Rails 4.2.0 as explained in the selected answer by Vinay.
controllers/users_controller.rb
class UsersController < ApplicationController
...
def follow_admins
admins = User.find_all_by_admin(true) # EDIT - Deprecated: May have worked prior to rails 4.2
admins.each do |admin|
self.follow!(admin)
end
end
The error message is
NoMethodError in UsersController#create
undefined method `find_all_by_admin' for #

It seems to me that there is no column with admin name in your User model as we might can see Michael Hartl's sample_app_3rd_edition
So in order to make follow_admins method work you need to add admin column in users table type boolean and default: false.
def follow_admins
admins = User.find_all_by_admin(true) # would be worked in rails 4.0 not rails 4.2.2
admins = User.where(admin: true) # Should be work in rails 4.2.2
# Most of the Dynamic finder has been removed form rails 4.2.2
admins.each do |admin|
self.follow!(admin)
end
end
note As I mention in my answer default to false ,It is not mandatory but as you are following Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial It good to go accordingly .
hope this answer would help you !!!

It's likely you never defined the find_all_by_admin method in the User model.
Open the User model file and check if the method is there. If not, define it as a class method.

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