setting "defaults" on AR finds

let's say i have a Category model. every time i pull the categories, i am writing something along the lines of @categories = Category.find(:all, :order => :position)

is there a way to put something in the model so that any time i find categories with Category.find(:all), it will automatically sort by the position column unless i specify otherwise? i would like to be able to change something like that in one place instead of passing the same parameters to it every time.

i did add something like this to the model which also works:

  def self.order_by_position     find(:all, :order => :position)   end

so that i can just do Category.order_by_position but was just wondering if there's a better way.

let's say i have a Category model. every time i pull the categories, i am writing something along the lines of @categories = Category.find(:all, :order => :position)

is there a way to put something in the model so that any time i find categories with Category.find(:all), it will automatically sort by the position column unless i specify otherwise? i would like to be able to change something like that in one place instead of passing the same parameters to it every time.

i did add something like this to the model which also works:

def self.order_by_position    find(:all, :order => :position) end

so that i can just do Category.order_by_position but was just wondering if there's a better way.

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