http://mcphage.com If it's stupid, and it works—then it's not stupid Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:55:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rails has a series of methods, find_by_*, find_all_by_*, and find_and_create_by_* where the * can be any database column, or any combination of database columns--in any order--joined by _and_.  When I first started coding in Rails, I had trouble figuring out how they worked.  Did you have to put the columns ... http://mcphage.com/?p=3