Re: [Nitro] Automatic finders

> > User.finder(:description, ..)
> 
> I like the latter much better.  I don't like where method names cannot be
> documented except by explaining some pattern by which the method names will be
> generated, when there is a clearer alternative.  Doesn't this latter method
> result in no additional method names needing to be generated for the purpose?
>   How could that not be better?

Hmm, this is interesting. It works just like the new selective update
method I added:

Instead of 

obj.update_properties('name = 'tml', hits = hits + 1') (ol Og)

there is a new method:

obj.name = 'tml'
obj.hits += 1
obj.update(:name, :hits)

that provides automatic quoting and is more suitable for non-sql stores.
(of course the old og method is still working)

So I 'll investigate your finder idea, thanks. But I prefer the
find_xxx method, because specialized code can be pre-evaluated. And I
really don't like to generate arrays all the time,I think Ruby's GC is
pretty expensive at the moment.



regards,
George


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