Comments on: ActiveRecord finder: Now we can use hash as conditions

By: Akhil Bansal

Akhil Bansal — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:02:47 +0000

I don’t have exact idea when it was introduced, but it was near rails 1.2.0

By: JFSIII

JFSIII — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:55:47 +0000

This is great. I’ve long thought the current way was cumbersome and not keeping with The Rails Way.

I mean, nearly everything else is Model.method(:param => :value) except find().

When I say not keeping with The Rails Way, I mean that it’s putting the user right into the muck. You don’t write SQL anywhere else in the app (excluding find_by_sql()), so how can we expect a user to know how to properly format a WHERE clause?

Again, great news. In which version of Rails will this appear?

By: Akhil Bansal

Akhil Bansal — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:49:00 +0000

Hi zerohalo,
Try this for OR condition as:

:conditions=>["firstname =>:fname OR lastname => :lname", {:fname=> @fname, :lname => @lname}]

By: Akhil Bansal

Akhil Bansal — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:22:01 +0000

Zerohalo,
Currently we have no way to specify ‘OR’

By: zerohalo

zerohalo — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:17:12 +0000

Nice. How do you specify the OR condition?

By: Paul Davis

Paul Davis — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:55:05 +0000

In what version of AR does this functionality appear?