ActiveRecord, Pulling Out Finders Into Extensions

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Dennis-

I've been thinking of this for a while. At least, if I'm reading what you're saying right, I have.

To me, this is what I've wanted.

Any object that implements .to_sql(connection) should be allowed as a condition.

#A useless stub example. class Array   def to_sql(connection)     connection.quote(self.to_s)   end end

Basically, this would open up any crazy-idea that anyone wants to implement for conditions.

ActiveSupport would implement the default Object#to_sql(con) methods.

Thoughts on this API?

-hampton.

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Oh wait, one pretty example

class SearchObject   def initialize(params)     #build state   end

  def to_sql(conn)     #build my sql call   end end

So, you could easily do this.

User.find(:all, :condition => SearchObject.new(params[:user]))

Crazy! I want to do this!

-hampton.