add scoped finders

went ahead and wrote this. Rather small amount of code.

works like this:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  scoped_context :admins do |context|
    context.select { |u| u.type == 'Admin' }
  end
end

User.admins.to_sql
#=> "SELECT * FROM users WHERE users.type = 'Admin'"

Not sure how add-ons are packaged, unfortunately - let me know if there's something else to be done.

You can do this already, y'know:

class Company
  def self.high_rated
    query_context.select { |c| c.rating > 3 }
  end
end

>> Company.high_rated.to_sql
=> "SELECT * FROM companies WHERE companies.`rating` > 3"
>> Company.high_rated.first
=> #<Company:0x26eb1ec ...>

Maybe this is worth posting about.

Yep, that occurred to me. Certainly a matter of taste which you prefer.

I think it might be a bit better encapsulated as a special method, and maybe faster since it doesn't go through the query processor for every call.