More Goodies from Rails 2.2

You'll be seeing plenty about the big new Rails 2.2 features soon enough, I'm sure. But there is also a sprinkling of new helpers of one sort or another coming in this version. Here's a selection that you might like:

Model.find_last_by_attributes - The opposite of find_first_by_attributes.

Model.find_by_attributes! - Raises an exception instead of returning nil if nothing can be found.

Date and Time classes now supply past?, today?, and future? for comparisons.

Array#second through Array#tenth are aliases for Array#[1] through Array#[9]

Enumerable#several is the equivalent of collection.size > 1

Inflector#parameterize produces a URL-ready version of its input, for use in +to_param+.