Use LIKE/regex with variable in mongoid

Question

I\'m trying to find all documents whose text contains the word test. The below works fine:

@tweets = Tweet.any_of({ :text => /.*test.*/ })

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Answer 1

searchterm = (params[:searchlogparams][:searchterm])
@tweets = Tweet.any_of({ :text => Regexp.new ("/.*"+searchterm+".*/") })

or

searchterm = (params[:searchlogparams][:searchterm])
@tweets = Tweet.any_of({ :text => /.*#{searchterm}.*/ })