You could always take the difference of two queries, if needed:

User.all - User.where(:id => [1,2,3])

If your list of ids to exclude is not long, you can also use SQL in a where
argument:

User.where("id != ? and id != ?", 1, 2)

Phil


On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Shea Barton <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I've been looking for a while and I can't find a way to compose an
> activerecord .where query that excludes certain ranges / values.
>
> Like User.where(:id !=> [3,9,23], :active => 1)
>
> help?
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