Question

I have a mail model that is backed by a db table. Recipients is a serialized array that holds Contact id #’s and raw emails. I would like to be able to query to get all emails that were sent to a Contact. How do I do a find_by_recipients(includes contact.id)?

Answer 1

You have 3 options

1. Remodel you data, extract serialized data to new tables/columns
2. Index your data using some search engine (SOLR probably, with sunspot_solr gem)
3. Use a nosql solution instead, MongoDB with mongo_mapper/mongoid preferably