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Rails always made it easy to grab the first item in any ActiveRecord model. Rails 2.1 allows you to easily grab the last element, too, with the syntax ActiveRecord.find(:last). Like :first, you can add limits, conditions, etc. to it. Additionally, there are new static methods to allow you to call ActiveRecord.first and ActiveRecord.last to get the first and last elements respectively. Yay! Continue reading →