Array operator on ActiveRecord

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Array operator on ActiveRecord

This adds a [] operator to ActiveRecord models to quickly find single records, e.g.

User[:id => 1]

Thats it!

gistfile1.rb

# Adds a [] operator to ActiveRecord models
# e.g. User[:id => 1] returns #<User id: 1>

class ActiveRecord::Base
  def self.[](val)
    self.where(val).first
  end
end

I don't really see the advantage of this over find(1)

This is neat, clever and simple! Love it!

@joshk maybe not when finding a record by id, it's probably more useful when looking for somebody named "Josh":

User.where(:first_name => 'Josh')
User[:first_name => 'Josh']

It's not much, but it saves you some keystrokes. :)

@jeffkreeftmeijer well, thats a nicer example, which I didn't think about, so I give it a thumbs up.