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Asked: 2026-05-25T10:09:40+00:00

I’m a newbie to rails. I’ve done a search query myresult = Model1.includes(‘:model2’, ‘:model3’).where(model1.field1

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I’m a newbie to rails. I’ve done a search query

myresult = Model1.includes(':model2', ':model3').where("model1.field1 LIKE ? OR model1. field2 LIKE ? OR model2.field1 LIKE ? OR model2.field2 LIKE ? OR model2.field3 LIKE ? OR model3.field1 LIKE ? " value1, value1, value2, value2, value3, value4 ).select("model1.field1, ..., model1.fieldn, model2.field1.., model3.field2 ")

Now I hear this is not a good practice. Other one I found is someone said to use joins of Arel. But Arel seems to be relatively new and for me it looked like SQL-injection prone. Can some one suggest a good way of doing this in ruby on rails.

Thank you
Sai

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re trying to do full-text search across several fields, you don’t want to do this in SQL.

    You should use a speciallized full text search system like Sphinx or Solr.

    Check out Thinking Sphinx (Rails Sphinx API):

    http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/

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