Rails - Dec 2005 - Extend the find-method: more conditions

Hi,

I want to share some helpful code snippet. Can it further be optimized? 
Or is this even good to do?

Put this in your model to write a customized find method having more 
conditions:

   def self.find_active(*args)
     options = extract_options_from_args!(args)
     conditions = "AND (#{sanitize_sql(options[:conditions])})" if 
options[:conditions]
     options[:conditions] = "ADDITIONAL_CONDITIONS_GO_HERE
#{conditions}"
     args << options
     find(*args)
   end

regards,
Helmut