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Implicit order column

ActiveRecord has a class method implicit_order_column= that allows you to override the behavior of the .first and .last methods.

class User < ApplicationRecord
  self.implicit_order_column = "email"
end

User.first
Ruby
User Load (3.2ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" ORDER BY "users"."email" ASC, "users"."id" ASC LIMIT $1  [["LIMIT", 1]]
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