There are several times where we are looking for approximate strings, like parte of an email o a name. We are not sure if the mail is correctly written or if a name is using correct capitalization, so we usually go with
City.where(“name ilike ?”, “%york%”)
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Would it be better to have something like
City.where(name: approximates(“york”))
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Is this kind of change aesthetic or not? For me it would be quite comfortable, but its not that big of a change.
This could be used while checking for information in a Rails Console or event a search method.
It would also be great to have an even short approximation method, like so
City.where.approx(name: “francisco”)
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or
City.where.approx(population: 1000000)
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The interpretation of the approximates with numbers would be quite difficult to agree upon, but I’m sure it could be of great help, maybe something like this could work
City.where.approx(population: 1000000, radius: 0.1)
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So that goes around ± 10% of the given value, but that would interefere with an attribute called radius…well…