Rails - Jan 2006 - Doesn''t "find" call initialize?

class Item < ActiveRecord::Base

   def initialize(*args)
      super
      @x = 5

   end

   def print_x
      puts @x
   end
end


item_new = Item.new
item_new.print_x   # output: 5

item_find = Item.find(1) # this record is in the database
item_find.print_x  # output: nil


I thought the output would be 5 in both cases, since Item.find returns a 
new object of Item and so Item.initialize would be called







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