net-ldap-0.1.1 gives invalid filter syntax cuz of parenthesi

Things like this won't work.. they fail with Invalid filter syntax filter = Net::LDAP::Filter.construct("nisnetgrouptriple=(,user,)") If I remove the parenthesis and it works fine.

or if you use filter = Net::LDAP::Filter.eq( "nisnetgrouptriple", "(,user,)" ) then that works fine..

but i want to have compound statements and take them from a web front end so this is all tedious to construct.

This will fail with invalid filter syntax as well: filter = Net::LDAP::Filter.construct("(&(objectClass=Person)(|(sn=Jensen)(cn=Babs J*)))")

Anyone found better work arounds for things like this other than going to ruby/ldap c based gem?