Rails - May 2006 - select specified fields from a record

ok, here is my question, how can i select only one or two, three.. etc 
fields from a sentence, for example, i only want to know the id, name 
from de User model

User.find(:first, :condiions => ["id = ?", @id])

how can i specify what fields i want??

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On May 9, 2006, at 10:33 AM, sergio luis wrote:
> ok, here is my question, how can i select only one or two, three.. etc
> fields from a sentence, for example, i only want to know the id, name
> from de User model
>
> User.find(:first, :condiions => ["id = ?", @id])
>
> how can i specify what fields i want??
Please refer to the API docs:
   http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M000860

Also, be mindful that the forum is mirrored to a mailing list -
"throwaway" questions really gum up the works.

Thanks,
jeremy