I'm using the 'binarylogic-searchlogic' gem in version 2.3.5 along with Rails 2.3.4.
What I want to do is performing a search on a model for a specified value over multiple attributes. I achieve this through chaining everything together like
User.first_name_or_last_name_or_email_like(value)
But with more and more attributes in this search this tends to be ugly. Instead I'd like to use the search mechanism of searchlogic like this:
search = User.search
search.first_name_like = value
search.last_name_like = value
..
@users = search.all
So this is the way to search via AND - but what I want is OR. I've found two ways to achieve this, but both don't work.
1st one: prepend an or_ to the condition
search = User.search
search.first_name_like = value
search.or_last_name_like = value
@users = search.all
This gives me The or_last_name_like is not a valid condition. You may only use conditions that map to a named scope
2nd one: use search.any
search = User.search
search.first_name_like = value
search.last_name_like = value
@users = search.any
gives me undefined methodany' for #`.
Any idea's on that? Am I mising the right point of the readme?
Thanks for your very welcome help!
edit: time for some ugly workaround:
search = User.search
search.first_name_like = value
search.last_name_like = value
User.find(:all, :conditions => search.scope(:find).gsub('AND','OR'))
Works but is surely not the way to go, isn't it?