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I'm going through Dave and David's Rails book and parts of it just amaze me. How much code would it take in your language of choice to do the following:

1. Pull all the data from a database table
2. Filter out the data by some value on a single column
3. Sort the data

Granted, this isn't rocket science. Any beginner programmer should be able to do this. But in the Rails book, it's four lines of code... and it could be one. It's written on four lines to be readable.

This is a routine that returns all the items that can be sold now. Can you read it?

def self.salable_items
   find (:all,
         :conditions  => "date_available <= now()",
         :order       => "date_available desc")
end	

Jared