On Oct 12, 7:09 am, "Greg Hauptmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm curious. If you saw the Rails "select_all(sql, name = nil)" method
> (rerferhttp://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/Da...),
> and wanted to use it, how would you really know how to use it and call
> it
> from this API doco?
>
> I know from googling that you can call it from within a model by going
> "ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_all(sql_string)", but how would I have
> worked this out from the API doco.
That's just me, but it seems kind of obvious to me. The second
parameter is a bit more mysterious but if it has a default value
chances are you can just ignore it. the fact that the first parameter
is called sql strongly implies that you should give it some sql.
Fred
> Within the API page for the method it
> says it's within Module
> "ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::DatabaseStatements".
>
> Thanks
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