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A Rails plugin that allows quick and easy fetching of random records, or records in random order.
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RandomFinders ============= Allows quick and easy fetching of random records, or records in random order. Simply pass the :random to the order in any finder method. Examples ======== Find a random article Article.find(:first, :order => :random) Randomize photos Photo.find(:all, :order => :random) Caveat ====== This will not treat you nicely with large datasets. Read about it here: http://daniel.collectiveidea.com/blog/tags/random_finders Based on an idea by Mike Burns http://mikeburnscoder.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/retrieving-random-elements-from-an-activerecord/ Copyright (c) 2007 Daniel Morrison, Collective Idea (http://collectiveidea.com), released under the MIT license
