---
title: A Convenient Squirrel Addition
teaser:
tags: web,rails,squirrel
author: Jon Yurek
published_on: 2007-02-13
---

This is probably something that should have been done sooner, but I didn't get
around to it and it wasn't immediately important to us. Since it now is, I
changed Squirrel's call to `ActiveRecord::Base#find` to include all parameters
passed in, even the extra hash variables find normally uses. While this isn't
terribly amazing on its own (although it does mean you can use `:limit` even
though it doesn't have Squirrel-specific syntax yet), it allows the usage of the
terribly lovely [paginating_find] plugin.

[paginating_find]: https://github.com/alexkwolfe/paginating_find

    posts = Post.find(:all, :limit => 10) do
        created_on > 7.days.ago
    end

    orders = Order.find(:all, :page => { :size => 5, :current => 2 } ) do
        customer.id == params[:customer_id]
    end

Both of these will work as expected now. Well, the second one needs
`paginating_find` installed, but you know what I mean.

As always, [the repo is on github][squirrel-repo].

[squirrel-repo]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/squirrel