Question

I have two Rails apps, one client using ActiveResource and one service. I am testing the following command via the console:

User.find(:all, :params => {:email_address => "[e-mail]"})

I get back all the records in my user table and not just the one specified in my email parameter.

When I go look at the log for my service app it shows as follows

Started GET "/users.json?email_address=myemail%40domain.com" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-12-29 11:29:06 -0600
   (0.4ms)  SHOW search_path
  Processing by UsersController#index as JSON
  Parameters: {"email_address"=>"[e-mail]"}
  User Load (0.7ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" 
Completed 200 OK in 40ms (Views: 35.7ms | ActiveRecord: 3.3ms)

My parameter was not included in the SQL statement.

Any insight?

Answer 1

Based on your comment on the original question, your controller still looks like this:

class UsersController < ActionController::Base 
 def index
   @users = User.all
   respond_to do |format|
     format.json { render json: @users }
   end
 end
   #other methods down here
end

But in order to get your index view to render just the ones that match the email, you need to update the index method to:

class UsersController < ActionController::Base 
 def index
   @users = User.find_all_by_email_address(email_address)
   respond_to do |format|
     format.json { render json: @users }
   end
 end
   #other methods down here
end