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Is find() a class method or instance method in Ruby on Rails?

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In the following code -

 require 'active_record'

 class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
 end

 order = Order.find(1)
 ...

As per http://api.rubyonrails.org/ find() is an instance public method. So why can we call Order.find(1) here? Shouldn't it be Order.new.find(1)?

posted Jan 6, 2014 by Tarun Singhal

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