Structuring a find that looks at the first letter of a field

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I guess the subject is fairly self-explanatory. I’m pretty new to RoR,
but I’d like to learn how to structure a find that looks at the first
character of a field, say firstname, to find those that match a
parameter passed in to the controller.

Hopefully it’s not too difficult. :confused:
Thanks in advance.

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On 21 Mar., 09:01, Robert S. [email protected]
wrote:

I guess the subject is fairly self-explanatory. I’m pretty new to RoR,
but I’d like to learn how to structure a find that looks at the first
character of a field, say firstname, to find those that match a
parameter passed in to the controller.

Hopefully it’s not too difficult. :confused:
Thanks in advance.

@person = Person,find(:all, :conditions => [“firstname LIKE ?%”, params
[:letter]]

The question mark is replaced with params[:letter]. There is plenty of
material on the LIKE keyword on the internet, so if you don’t know
what it does, go ahead and do some research.

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Cheers,
David K.
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