I am working on an app with a Flex front end and part of that is to search for an institution by name.
I have it working if the user enters the school name exactly, but I need to deal with multiple results being returned, specifically how to test if multiple results were returned, if they are to change the SQL statement.
Code with notes below:
@query = params[:iname][:id] <-- an xml result from Flex @new_query = "%" +@query+ "%"
@institutions = Institution.find(:all, :conditions => ["institution_name like ?", @new_query])
if @institutions.length > 1 @inst_query = "institution_id in" for institution in @institutions @inst_id << institution.id end end
@events = Event.find(:all, :conditions => ["(institution_id = ?)", @institutions], :order => "event_start_date")
Note - the code is not working as above. I will need to change the query to be (institution_id IN (x,x,x)).
When I test for length I get an error about nil object.
Thanks in advance for your help.
-Scott
