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There’s now a convenient way to call Active Record finder methods when the query is based solely on AND ed equality conditions.

Before:

Article.find(:all, :conditions => [ "author_id = ? and status = ?", @author.id, 'published' ], :limit => 10)

Now:

Article.find(:all, :conditions => { :author_id => @author.id, :status => 'published' }, :limit => 10)

Instead of having to finagle with the SQL string and the correct number of ? placeholders – we can now just pass in the hash of parameters which will be AND ed together to form the SQL query.

Ahh, that’s nice.

tags: rubyonrails, rails