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

Alternate syntax using Hash

Account.where("id = :val1 OR id = :val2", val1: 1, val2: 2).

This is particularly useful, when the value is compared with multiple columns. eg:

User.where("first_name = :name OR last_name = :name", name: 'tom')