Rails 3: How to find records with field possibly equals to nil?
问题 I would like to find all SongWriter s with maiden_name equals to my_maiden_name ? Note: my_maiden_name may be nil I tried: SongWriter.where("maiden_name = ?", my_maiden_name) and it works fine except the case where my_maiden_name = nil . When my_maiden_name = nil , the generated query is: SELECT `song_writers`.* FROM `song_writers` WHERE (maiden_name = NULL) rather than: SELECT `song_writers`.* FROM `song_writers` WHERE maiden_name IS NULL How could I generalize the active record query to