How to reorient a cylinder cframe so that it resembles the cframe of a deprecated cylinder mesh?

This has seriously been messing with me since I am so used to having the non-curved faces to be on the y-axis of the cylinder. And now all cylinder has their circular faces be on it's x-axis

Let's say that I want to shoot a cylindrical laser using ray.new(). How do I reorient the cylinder laser so that the non-curved face is facing towards the object it is shooting at so it looks like a normal laser?