Making a Keyword Search

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Hello I created a search engine on my site but it only works when you type the full name of the string. My string name are on average 9 characters long.

  I would like to be able to search one word of the string and then get the listings to show up that have what you searched in it. This is what I have:

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I alright I think my problem was that I was using to sources of different information.

I used: :conditions => ["item_title LIKE ?", "%#{params[:search]}%"]) and it worked.

Thanks Gavin for the help!