Rails ActiveRecord conditions

Question

Is there a way to create a condition like this?

@products = Product.find(:all,
  :limit => 5,
  :conditions => { :products => { :locale => 'en', :id NOT '1' }, :tags => { :name => ['a','b']})

I would like to list all products not including product 1. Thx.

Answer 1

Rails 3

Use squeel gem.

Product.where(
  :products => { :locale => 'en', :id.not_in => '1' }, 
  :tags => { :name => ['a','b']}
).limit(5)

Rails 2

Use AR Extensions for this. It supports the following condition modifiers:

* _lt => less than
* _gt => greater than
* _lte => less than or equal to
* _gte => greater than or equal to
* _ne => not equal to
* _not => not equal to

Now you can rewrite your query as follows:

@products = Product.find(:all,
  :limit => 5,
  :joins => [:tags],
  :conditions => { :locale => 'en', :id_not => '1', :tags => { :name => ['a','b']}
)

Answer 2

It should be something like this. The original query wasn't really clear, adapt it to your needs.

@products = Product.find(:all,
  :limit => 5,
  :conditions => ["locale = ? AND id <> ? AND tags.name IN (?)", "en", 1, ['a','b'],
  :joins => "tags"
)