adding automatic conditions to find method

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Hello,

Is there a way to add automatic condition to all active record find methods?

I have an attribute in all my tables something like "effective_end_date" so that I don't delete records but I keep them by setting effective_end_date so I want to put condition is all my find queries effective_end_date Is null or effective_end_date > Time.now. I don't want to type this for every single query so I was wondering if it's possible to automate it.

Thanks,

Tam

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Yes, you can use default_scope: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M002258 It supports the same options as the find methods.