Testing for nil numeric value in find

Rails
1

In the agile/rails tutorial book the following construct is added
to products.rb.

def self.salable_items
find( :all,
:conditions => “date_available <= now()”,
:order => “date_available desc”)
end

Now, I wish to extend :conditions => to exclude products that have
a nil value for the price. I have tried different syntax using
“price.nil?”, “not”, and “!”, but have not hit upon the right
combination. Can someone show me the way?

Regards,
Jim

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Hi,
I haven’t tested this, but I think it should work.

def self.salable_items
find( :all,
:conditions => [“(date_available <= ?) AND (price <>
|NULL|)”,Time.now()],
:order => “date_available desc”)
end

Eric

James B. Byrne wrote:

Now, I wish to extend :conditions => to exclude products that have
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fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario
= hal Canada L8E 3C3

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Disregard the pipes in the statement, I think my editor added them in by
accident.

Eric G. wrote:

Eric

      :order        =>  "date_available desc")

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def self.salable_items
find( :all,
:conditions => “date_available <= now() && price > 0”,
:order => “date_available desc”)
end

Since price is defined as not null and a decimal, its default value will
be
0.00 (I think). Adding an SQL check for price > 0 will give what you
want.

Bob S.
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