Why You Might Not Use Named Scopes In Rails3

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It's interesting how Rails 3 querying is a lot easier than it was before.

Simple Task: Get all posts that are promoted to front page.

Some apps probably do not use the field "promoted" primarily because there's a published field then all published posts will be promoted on front page. But in Drupal, nodes have promoted field and I think most apps should too. Sometimes you wouldn't want to show everything on the front page or want some post on top of the list of posts.

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