Rails - Feb 2007 - Dynamic finders vs. standard find(:all) with condition

Is there a difference between the way collections are returned using a
dynamic finder and a standard find all with a condition?

I decided to convert this...

@reservations = Reservation.find(:all, :conditions => ["status =
?",
"Pending"])

...to this...

@reservations = Reservation.find_by_status("Pending")

...because it''s much more readable and I prefer dynamic finders over
conditions whenever possible.  However, the collection returned by the
dynamic finder apparently doesn''t have the "empty?" method
available to
it.  I use @reservations.empty? in my view to evaluate if I have an
empty collection of objects and react accordingly.

Is there something I''m missing?  Do dynamic finders return objects in a
different manner than regular finds?

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Bah I''m an idiot.  Disregard this.  I forgot to use find_all_by_status 
instead of find_by_status.

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