Question

I know very little about SQL. My app is running Rails 3.0.9. I have a search feature in my app which allows a user to search for photos, but right now the query only checks photo.name:

where("photos.name LIKE ?", "%#{search}%")

I would like it to ALSO check the photo.description for a match. I tried the following:

where("photos.name OR photo.description LIKE ?", "%#{search}%")

That seemed to actually work in development (I use SQLite in development), but once on Heroku, this code failed. What is the proper way to do this? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can try this

where("photos.name LIKE ? OR photo.description LIKE ?", "%#{search}%", "%#{search}%")