On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Bharat Ruparel <[email protected]>wrote:

> Having a tough time creating a where clause and/or query for the
> following situation for a table.  Will appreciate some help:
>
> 1.  Need to filter records for a specific client_id.  No problem,
> straightforward where condition
>
> 2.  For the specific client records found in step 1, need to further
> filter records where the status is "published" for if the record was not
> created by the current user, OR, regardless of the
> "published/unpublished" status value if the record was created by the
> current user.  Note that the current user is identified by the
> "current_user" method and there is a field in the table which is called
> "created_by" that stores the id of the user who created this record.
>
>
Foo.where(:client_id => client_id).where('(status = ? AND created_by != ?)
OR (created_by = ?)', 'published', current_user.id, current_user.id)


> What is the best way of representing such query?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bharat
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