[Rails] ActiveRecord selecting multiple fields

[Bruno Mattarollo]

Hello,

I have a model for a Person and I am trying to get the "first_name" and 
the "last_name" which I have in different columns in a table. Is this 
the most efficient way?

def self.getFullName(user_id)
		find(user_id).first_names + " " + find(user_id).last_name
	end

I assume that this makes two queries ... I would like to only make one 
(also for future stuff ... how do I make this more efficient?)

Thank you in advance,

/B

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