Hi Everyone,
I've just uploaded a patch that allows you to do:
Person.find(:all, :conditions => { :university => victoria_wellington })
i.e leave off the "_id" for belongs_to associations (specify the association name rather than the foreign key).
Looking for comments, suggestions and hopefully +1's. 
(The obvious thing to do is expand that syntax out to cover all assocation types, but I thought I'd start small).
Cheers!
Nik