According to this post in the kohana forum, the find_by_* method of ORM is not avaliable since Kohana 2.2 because the performance issue.
In the previous version, Kohana 2.1.2, I used before. I can use find_by_*() method like this:
$user = new User_Model();
$user->find_by_username('tzangms');
But for now, in Kohana 2.2, we should use where() instead, if we want to find by username, not by id.
$user = new User_Model()
$user->where('username', 'tzangms')->find();
damn, find_by_* is so intuitive.
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