Gimme

Ever find yourself inside a Rails console wishing you could quickly find something other than #first or #last?

Gimme extends ActiveRecord and lets you call #random so you can quickly summon arbitrary records to quickly hone your console-fu.

Examples

Usage is pretty straight forward. Let's say we have an ActiveRecord model called User, then we can do:

User.random   # => [#<User id: 1379, ...>]

Or if one just simply isn't enough for you:

User.random(:limit => 3)   # => [#<User id: 92, ...>, #<User id: 314, ...>, #<User id: 191, ...>]

All other options are passed along unharmed.

Gimme's #random currently maps to #find(:all), so you'll always get back an array.