activerecord - Use a find hash in Rails 3.x? -

is there non-deprectated option in rails 3 can pass data structure in execute query, rather use method chaining approach ?

consider hash representing set of critieria limiting set of records (say, documents)..

{   :conditions => {     :account_id => 2   },   :limit => 5,         # page size   :offset => 5,        # (page-1) * page_size   :sort => 'id desc' } 

this may come url such as:

/documents.js?page_size=5&page=2&sidx=id&sord=desc&filter[account_id]=2 

and want avoid issues of order-importance in translation of hash sequential series of calls of methods:

# 'right', or better ?  document.offset(5).where(:account_id => 2).limit(5) document.where(:account_id => 2).limit(5).offset(5) 

i'm concerned programmatic transformation of set of query criteria inferred http parameters or json objects may more complicated if have walk hash , created chained method calls.

you can use classic find method:

document.all :conditions => { :account_id => 2 }, :limit => 5, :offset => 5, :order => "id desc"