On 9/9/05, Marlon Moyer <marlon.moyer@[...].com>  wrote:
>  I was reworking the 4 days on rails tutorial since I saw an easy way
>  to use related tables in the find method.  So I started to rework the
>  paginator code and got confused by the different syntax.
>  
>  This is my code that I was trying fix:
>  
>    def list_by_category
>      @item_pages = Paginator.new self, Item.count, 10, @params['page']
>   **   @items = Item.find(:all, :include=> :category, :order=>'category')
>      render_action 'list'
>    end
>  
>  This is what the wiki states about using the paginator:
>  
>    def list
>      @person_pages = Paginator.new self, Person.count, 10, @params['page']
>  **    @people = Person.find_all nil, 'last_name, first_name',
>  @person_pages.current.to_sql
>    end
>  
>  my question is about the starred line.  Is the second form the older
>  version?  Most of the examples I see have named arguments.  I think
>  the first two arguments are conditions and order_by, but what would be
>  the third argument in the second form.

Yes, second form is a depreciated version of the find method.  I think
the third argument is just a SQL statement that would do some ordering
(like 'order by DESC' or whatever).
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