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In the old days, we did this:

User.find(:all, :conditions => { :subscribed => true }, :order => 'created_at DESC' )

And then this:

User.find_all_by_subscribed(true, :order => 'created_at DESC' )

How about this?

User.for_subscribed(true).order_by('created_at DESC').find(:all)

Here’s the how!

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  named_scope_for :subscribed
end

Whup-cha!

class ActiveRecord::Base
  def self.named_scope_for attribute
    named_scope "for_#{attribute}",
      lambda { |attribute_value| { :conditions => { attribute => attribute_value } } }
  end
 
  named_scope :order_by, Proc.new { |*attributes|
    raise ArgumentError, 'You must specify an attribute to order by' if attributes.blank?
    { :order => attributes.join(', ') }
  }
end

Check it out it here, or install using git.

git clone git://github.com/duncanbeevers/named_scope_for.git vendor/plugins/named_scope_for