# help: find with except or only attributes

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/help-find-with-except-or-only-attributes/53771>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [August 20, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/help-find-with-except-or-only-attributes/53771 "2010-08-20T18:45:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![der\_tom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@der\_tom](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/der_tom)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/help-find-with-except-or-only-attributes/53771/1 "2010-08-20T18:45:28Z")

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hi,

is there a way of returning not all columns when doin a find? i know u can do that eg with the to\_xml(:only=\> …, :except=\> … but how would i do that with html?

thx