Rails - Aug 2006 - find method not interpreting arguments correctly?

i''ve got a situtation where i''m trying to pass arguments from
a method
to find and AR is telling me that it can''t find the record where
id=all

here''s what i am attempting to do

class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :x
end

class FlyingThing < Thing
end

class x < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :things do
    def that_fly(*args)
      FlyingThing.find(args)
    end
  end
end

so if i were to do

x.find(:first).things.that_fly(:all)

i get

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Couldn''t find FlyingThing with ID=all


is this a bug or am i doing something wrong?

Chris

anyone got any ideas on this?

On 8/17/06, Chris Hall <christopher.k.hall@gmail.com>
wrote:
> i''ve got a situtation where i''m trying to pass arguments
from a method
> to find and AR is telling me that it can''t find the record where
> id=all
>
> here''s what i am attempting to do
>
> class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
>   belongs_to :x
> end
>
> class FlyingThing < Thing
> end
>
> class x < ActiveRecord::Base
>   has_many :things do
>     def that_fly(*args)
>       FlyingThing.find(args)
>     end
>   end
> end
>
> so if i were to do
>
> x.find(:first).things.that_fly(:all)
>
> i get
>
> ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Couldn''t find FlyingThing with
ID=all
>
>
> is this a bug or am i doing something wrong?
>
> Chris
>

On Aug 18, 2006, at 5:27 AM, Chris Hall wrote:
> anyone got any ideas on this?
You need to splat the args into the find command. Try this:

class x < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :things do
    def that_fly(*args)
      FlyingThing.find(*args)
    end
  end
end

-Ezra