Thanks Colin, the person who posted that code sure had me fooled, i could
have done better myself without adding code to the model It looked like an
advanced technique, who would have guessed it was so wrong
On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 9:17:13 AM UTC-5, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On 7 December 2015 at 13:55, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
> > when the search gets submitted it only returns results for records that
> had
> > the searched value in publicists
> >
> > from my model:
> > def self.search(search)
> > where("headline LIKE ?", "%#{search}%")
> > where("storyline LIKE ?", "%#{search}%")
> > where("publicist LIKE ?", "%#{search}%")
> > end
>
> The where method returns a set of matching records, your method runs
> the first where() and throws the result away, then it does the same
> with the second and throws the result away, then it runs the third and
> returns that. You presumably wish to find records where any of three
> are true so you need to use something like
> where(("headline LIKE ? OR storyline LIKE ? OR publicist LIKE ?",
> "%#{search}%", "%#{search}%", "%#{search}%")
>
> Colin
>
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