how to call a active record named scope with a string

Question

I\'m sure I\'m miss understanding the use of call but I thought I could do something like this.

@case_studies = CaseStudy.call(\"some_named_scope\")
         


        

Answer 1

If some_named_scope is a named_scope of the CaseStudy model, you can use send to call the method corresponding to params[:action] value. But this is obviously heavily exploitable.

So, security aside, you could get going with:

@case_studies = CaseStudy.send(params[:action])

Hope it works.