How to turn on REGEXP in SQLite3 and Rails 3.1?

Question

I have the following statement in Rails 3 using an SQLite3 database:

word = \'Hello\'
word_entry = Word.where(\"name REGEXP :word\", {:word => \"[[:<:]         


        

Answer 1

You may be intested in the sqlite3-pcre package, which implements REGEXP for SQLite.

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