This is a great change. We almost never use .find() anymore in our rails 2.3 projects and everything uses named_scope() or scoped() (which return relations). Th

This is a great change. We almost never use .find() anymore in our rails 2.3 projects and everything uses named_scope() or scoped() (which return relations). This change will discourage really bad practices that I've seen in a lot of rails code. If you've been doing things right you won't need to change much code. If you've been doing them wrong you will likely see a significant performance increase after updating your code. Here's a line from our 2.3.2 project (Get all organizations that the user is a fan of): @user.organizations.scoped(:limit => 10).with_role("Fan") And what it will look like after this change: @user.organizations.limit(10).with_role("Fan")