Question

I have three tables associated and am trying to do a simple search.

User Table
ID | Name

User_Contacts Table
User_ID | Contact_ID | Updated_At

Contacts Table
ID | Name

I currently have my associations set up such that I can do the following

@contacts = @current_user.contacts

and have the User_Contacts table returned. I would like to keep it this way because I still need my updated_at attribute in my view.

Now what I need to do is some how search through the contacts table and find every contact where there name is like “%mike%” and have this update my @contacts variable. Maybe I’m approaching this the wrong way but I’m clueless where to start.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Mike,

Here’s a sample app that does what you’re looking for. Check out the Readme.markdown for sample usage.

https://github.com/JumpstartLab/contacts