With many Rails projects, there is occasionally a need to bypass the normal ActiveRecord API, and get closer to the low-level SQL API. Here are a few useful methods that bypass the confines of everyday ActiveRecord. #find_by_sql users = User.find_by_sql("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1") This returns model instances for the given SQL string. #find_by_sql also accepts parametrized values, like this: users = User.find_by_sql(["SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?

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