Ruby on Rails 3 howto make 'OR' condition

Question

I need an SQL statement that check if one condition is satisfied:

SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE my_table.x=1 OR my_table.y=1

I want to do th

Answer 1

This will works in Rails 5, see rails master :

Post.where('id = 1').or(Post.where('id = 2'))
# => SELECT * FROM posts WHERE (id = 1) OR (id = 2)

For Rails 3.0.4+:

accounts = Account.arel_table
Account.where(accounts[:id].eq(1).or(accounts[:id].eq(2)))