http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/tag/activerecord en-us 40 Musings from a Ruby on Rails development team <p>I just came across <a href="http://giantrobots.thoughtbot.com/2006/9/29/an-improvement-for-querying-in-rails">this little plugin</a> which seems to make the writing of ActiveRecord finders much more rubyesque.</p> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_ruby "><span class="ident">query</span> <span class="punct">=</span> <span class="constant">User</span><span class="punct">.</span><span class="ident">find</span> <span class="keyword">do</span> <span class="ident">name</span> <span class="punct">=</span> <span class="ident">persons_name?</span> <span class="keyword">end</span></code></pre></div> <p>Definitely seems nicer then:</p> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_ruby "><span class="constant">User</span><span class="punct">.</span><span class="ident">find</span><span class="punct">(</span><span class="symbol">:conditions=</span><span class="punct">&gt;[&quot;</span><span class="string">name=?</span><span class="punct">&quot;,</span><span class="ident">persons_name</span><span class="punct">])</span></code></pre></div> Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:37:00 -0400 urn:uuid:0ec9095d-232a-4112-b326-e9e92c1312a2 Colin A. Bartlett http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2007/10/17/more-rubyish-finders Rails ActiveRecord plugins http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/trackback/66