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pipegeek: Is there a straightforward way, given a list of ids, fetch all corresponding records, ignoring invalid ids?
pipegeek: ie, something like Model.find([1,2,3,4,5]), but without the requirement that all the ids be matched
pipegeek: err, should clarify (if it isn’t already obvious) I’m speaking about activerecord
therrg: pipegeek: Model.find_all_by_id([1,2,3,4,5]) does what you want
pipegeek: oh! Damn, I feel foolish for not having checked that—figured the find_all_by_ methods behaved the same way
pipegeek: thanks, therrg
therrg: yw
melvinram: btw, what is your usage scenario?
melvinram: trying to see when that would be useful
pipegeek: Well, I have a list of ids generated much earlier by some other tool that added a bunch of records
pipegeek: I need to do something to all of those records. Only, it’s possible that some have been DELETEd in the meantime
melvinram: ahe i see
