ActiveRecord find starts with

Question

Really simple question - how do I do a search to find all records where the name starts with a certain string in ActiveRecord. I\'ve seen all sorts of bits all over the internet

Answer 1

Very terse syntax for the same thing might be:

Model.where(field: ('prefix'...'prefiy'))

This renders:

WHERE ( field >= 'prefix' AND field < 'prefiy')

This does the job as 'prefiy' is the first string alphabetically not matching the 'prefix' prefix.

I would not use it normally (I would go for squeel or ransack instead), but it can save your day if for some reason you have to stick to hash syntax for the queries...