Dear friends, I came across this code snippet from my reading: require 'active_record' class Order < ActiveRecord::Base end order = Order.find(1) ... Looking at: http://api.rubyonrails.org/ and search for find(), find() is an instance public method. So why can we call Order.find(1) here? Shouldn't it be Order.new.find(1)? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/ad5db68638d4c0aaef0b171234eceb1d%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.