Kevin Marsh

Here’s an interesting hack. Tag this on the end of environment.rb:

module ActiveRecord
  class Base
    def self.[](id)
      self.find(id)
    end
  end
end

Now you can do fun things like:

>> Person[1]
=> #<Person:0x23c7a00 @attributes={"name"=>"Alice", "id"=>"1"}>
>> Person[1].name
=> "Alice"

Which is equivalent to:

>> Person.find(1)
=> #<Person:0x23c7a00 @attributes={"name"=>"Alice", "id"=>"1"}>
>> Person.find(1).name
=> "Alice"

…but far cooler.

In other news, I really need to upgrade to Mephisto – just as soon as they add XML-RPC support.