You don't need to return explicitly!

Ruby returns the value of the last line executed.

Don't do this:

def foo
  value = Foo.first(:conditions => { :label => "bar" })
  return value
end

Do this instead:

def foo
  Foo.first(:conditions => { :label => "bar" })
end
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