# Doubt in crud statement

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/doubt-in-crud-statement/135689>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 24, 2008, 8:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/doubt-in-crud-statement/135689 "2008-04-24T08:37:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![karthikragu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a88e57/32.png) [@karthikragu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karthikragu)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/doubt-in-crud-statement/135689/1 "2008-04-24T08:37:57Z")

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hi all,

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    while goign thro a projects code i saw a line like:

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@projects = User.find(params[:id]).projects.find(:all)

what this line means and what it w’ll return.how to see the content  
in @projects object.

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**Author:** ![karthikragu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a88e57/32.png) [@karthikragu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karthikragu)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/doubt-in-crud-statement/135689/2 "2008-04-24T11:30:12Z")

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On 24 Apr 2008, at 07:37, Karthikragunath B. wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> ```
> while goign thro a projects code i saw a line like:
> 
> ```
> 
> @projects = User.find(params[:id]).projects.find(:all)

It finds all the projects for the specified user. (In this particular  
case it’s almost equivalent to User.find(params[:id]).projects, but  
more generally it’s useful to limit your find to a specific user.)

Fred