Use LIKE/regex with variable in mongoid

Question

I\'m trying to find all documents whose text contains the word test. The below works fine:

@tweets = Tweet.any_of({ :text => /.*test.*/ })

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Answer 1

There is nothing wrong with the mongodb regex query. The problem is passing variable to ruby regex string. You cannot mix string with regex like normal strings

Instead

 "/.*"+searchterm+".*/"

try this

  >>searchterm = "test"
  >>"/#{searchterm}/"
  >> "/test/"