[Rails] Is find() a class method or instance method?

Dear friends,

I came across this code snippet from my reading:


require 'active_record'

class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
end

order = Order.find(1)
...

Looking at: http://api.rubyonrails.org/ and search for find(), find() is
an instance public method. So why can we call Order.find(1) here?
Shouldn't it be Order.new.find(1)?

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