Rails Tip: Default Scope

Jason Johnson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:27:30 +0000

I’ve started using the all method instead of find(:all) for fetching records – mainly because it’s shorter to type, but it’s also easy to override with a named scope. Just create a named_scope called all to set whatever default conditions and order you want. You can always use find(:all) if you want the non-scoped records.

named_scope :all, { 
  :order => 'last_name',
  :conditions => 'activated_at IS NOT NULL'
}

Thoughts, corrections and objections welcome in the comments.

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Rails Tip: Default Scope