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Rails offset method

Rails has a method for skipping records in a query, 'offset'. It is available through the ActiveRecord::QueryMethods library.

User.offset(15) # generated SQL has "OFFSET 15"

The docs recommend using it with 'order'. I used the two methods today to return all blog posts, excluding the ten most recent:

Post.order('created_at desc').offset(10)
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