On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Ryan Pusztai <rpusz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Fabio Mascarenhas <mascaren...@acm.org>wrote:
>
>> Lua's pattern matcher is too poor to make both cases work with a
>> single pattern... you can make the second case work with
>>
>> self:find_all_by_vehicle_type_and_oem{ "BMW 5 Series", "BMW" }
>>
>> A more general solution needs to retrofit orbit.model to use LPEG
>> instead of string.gsub... it is not hard, but does introduce another
>> dependency.
>>
>>
> Hum... Is there a LPeg rock? If so, is this an optional add-on that could
> be made. My applications main goal is to search a database by defining
> search criteria, so it is going to be very important for users to do both.
> Any alternatives/thoughts?
>
> I generate these queries from user input so I am not sure how to make the
> 'self:find_all_by_vehicle_type_and_oem()' to be programmaticly generated? I
> hope that is not a stupid question, but that is an option if I can figure
> out how to do it.
>
> Thanks.
>
Well I thought about this further and even if I could generate the "active
recod" type of finds. I would not be able to do the REGEXP and NOT REGEXP
and !=, would I?
--
Regards,
Ryan
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