gem install has_finder

You may have somthing that looks like this in your model:

class Post > ActiveRecord::Base

  def self.active
    find(:all, :conditions => {:active => true})
  end

end

HasFinder replaces this with

class Post > ActiveRecord::Base
	has_finder :active, :conditions => {:active => true}
end

so now you can do somthing like

Post.active.find(:all)

Or add some more conditions that will be merged

Post.active.find(:all, :conditions => {...})