Record.count('whatever = whatever') will be deprecated in Rails 2.0

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Ruboids:

Excuse the newbescence, but "count" is impossible to Google for. (Darn these clear and expressive interfaces!)

The deprecation warning says something about count(column_name, options). So what's the simplest translation from Record.count('whatever = whatever') to a .count() in ... whatever notation?

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count :all, :conditions => ...

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Rick Olson wrote:

The deprecation warning says something about count(column_name, options). So what's the simplest translation from Record.count('whatever = whatever') to a .count() in ... whatever notation?

count :all, :conditions => ...

For future reference, that wouldn't have been enough for people like me who shouldn't be allowed near a computer.

Fortunately, I just found this: