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Description: A Rails plugin that allows quick and easy fetching of random records, or records in random order.
Homepage: http://daniel.collectiveidea.com/blog/tags/random_finders
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RandomFinders
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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
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Find a random article
  Article.find(:first, :order => :random)
  
Randomize photos
  Photo.find(:all, :order => :random)
  

Caveat
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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