How to specify multiple values in where with AR query interface in rails3

Question

Per section 2.2 of rails guide on Active Record query interface here:

which seems to indicate that I can pass a string specifying the condition(s), then an array of

Answer 1

Sounds like you're doing something like this:

Model.where("attribute = ? OR attribute2 = ?", [value, value])

Whereas you need to do this:

# notice the lack of an array as the last argument
Model.where("attribute = ? OR attribute2 = ?", value, value)

Have a look at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html#array-conditions for more details on how this works.