how can I use like query in ruby with sinatra?

Question

Here's the query I tried:

@blogs = DB[:blogs].where(:title => params[:s_txt]).reverse_order(:id)

In this query, I'd like to find blogs in my database. I also need to create a query that gives users more results. How can I do this?

Answer 1

I also had this problem and only found this solution

@blogs = DB[:blogs].where("title LIKE '%#{params[:s_txt]}%'").reverse_order(:id)

Curious if there are better ways..

Searching in two fields is repeating the LIKE and seperating by AND or OR

@blogs = DB[:blogs].where("title LIKE '%#{params[:s_txt]}%' 
  or comment LIKE '%#{params[:c_txt]}%'").reverse_order(:id)

or do it like this

@blogs = DB[:blogs].where("title||comment LIKE '%#{params[:s_txt]}%'").reverse_order(:id)

Tested in Sqlite and it works. One advise: in lage tables you 'd better drop the first % if possible because the database will do a full table scan otherwise without using indexes but you can find all that stuff in the sql questions.

Answer 2

It is better to use dynamic parameters to avoid SQL injection:

@blogs = DB[:blogs].where("title LIKE ?", "%#{params[:s_txt]}%").reverse_order(:id)

or

@blogs = DB[:blogs].where("title LIKE :text", text: "%#{params[:s_txt]}%").reverse_order(:id)

You can easily add more parameters to this:

@blogs = DB[:blogs].where("title LIKE ? OR content LIKE ?", "%#{params[:s_txt]}%", "%#{params[:s_txt]}%").reverse_order(:id)

or

@blogs = DB[:blogs].where("title LIKE :text OR content LIKE :text", text: "%#{params[:s_txt]}%").reverse_order(:id)