Question

This named scope is working fine.

named_scope :search, lambda {|search_txt|
      {
        :conditions => ["field1 like ? or field2 like ? or field3 like ?","#{search_txt}%","#{search_txt}%","#{search_txt}%"]
      }
  }

Instead of writing search_txt three time in conditions. Can I handle the same scenario with passing search_txt only once in conditions ?

Something like

named_scope :search, lambda {|search_txt|
      {
        :conditions => ["field1 like ? or field2 like ? or field3 like ?","#{search_txt}%"]
      }

}

Answer 1

I don’t know if this works in a scope, but there is another way to write conditions:

MyModel.all(:conditions=>['field_1 LIKE :q OR field_2 LIKE :q OR field_3 LIKE :q', {:q=> 'search_txt'}])