[joernchen]

Rails will do the following:

User.find_by_reset_password_token(0)

  User Load (0.8ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`reset_password_token` = 0 LIMIT 1

 => #<User id: 1,[...]

hope that illustrates it

[Gigablah]

You're right, I was testing with tokens that started with numbers, so 0 didn't match anything.

  SELECT * FROM users where reset_token = 0;

will match the token "abc";

  SELECT * FROM users where reset_token = 1;

will match the token "1abc";

  SELECT * FROM users where reset_token = 123;

will match the token "123aasfas".