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Hi, I saw this railscast a while back and I've been meaning to ask something.

I like the dynamic find_by methods, but don't you lose the protection you get by the use of the question mark followed by variables?

Is "Task.find_all_complete(false)" less secure than "Task.find(:all, :conditions => ['complete = ?', false])" ? For example, if we were to plug a user-supplied value as the argument tot he dynamic find_by methods?

@Enrique, good question. Thankfully Rails automatically quotes and escapes the input variable for the dynamic find by methods, so it is just as secure as using the full conditional statement with the question mark.

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I wanted to reference the documentation because it took me quite a while to find this. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M001024

That's all about the with_scope method in ActiveRecord::Base. Hopefully someone else finds it useful for me to link it here.

Hi,

Is there a way of using find_all_by type methods to replace conditions with wildcards in using LIKE or REGEXP?

Thanks very much for your help

@Helena, you'll have to use a full find for that:

Task.find(:all, :conditions => ['name LIKE ?', name])

The shortcut find_by methods only work with equals comparison.

Perhaps it would also be worth mentioning that you can combine conditions like this:
Task.find_all_by_complete_and_category_id(false, 1)

You can find more about this here: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html

Under "Dynamic attribute-based finders"

What does the "False" do? Thanks.

Now it's possible to write an even better version of last_incomplete:

def last_incomplete
  @task = Task.find_last_by_complete(false)
end

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