oldhaven/app/models/artist.rb

class Artist < ActiveRecord::Base
	set_table_name 'musicbrainz.bh_artist'
	has_many :albums, :conditions => "release_type = 1", :order => 'year ASC, id ASC'

	def self.getByName(name)
		Artist.first(:conditions => ['name = ? AND id=credit_id', name], :order => 'rating DESC')
	end

	def self.getLastFmAutocomplete(query)
		return nil if query.nil? or query.strip.empty?

		json = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(open(
		    'http://www.last.fm/search/autocomplete' <<
		    '?q=' << URI.escape(query)
    	).read)
    	return nil if json.empty? else return json
	end
end