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How to write this better? Ruby Sequel chaining OR

In SQL it should look like this:

SELECT * FROM `categories_description_old` WHERE ((`categories_description` = '') OR (`categories_name` = '') OR (`categories_heading_title` = ''))

My (ugly) solution:

conditions = [:categories_name, :categories_heading_title, :categories_description]
b = table_categories_description_old.filter(conditions.pop => "")
conditions.each do |m|
 b = b.or(m => "")
end

Is there a better solution to chain the or conditions?

Solution

  • You can do something like:

    conditions.inject(table_categories_description_old.filter(true)){|acc, cond|
  acc.or(cond => '')
}

    But in cases like this when you have already thought out SQL query, I find it easier to just type whole WHERE condition and use Sequel just to sanitize my query parameters.