Any hints as to how I'd do this in SQL? I'm not sure I understood how
it relates to the "RADIANS" line you included.

On Jun 10, 1:33 pm, Greg Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
> One way would be to try do it in SQL, although you probably would want
> to create a validation on usernames to prevent any new users from
> cheating.
>
> has "RADIANS(latitude)",  :as => :latitude,  :type => :float
>
> On Jun 10, 9:28 am, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have a search that returns items ordered by their name. However,
> > some users cheat and put special characters or numbers in the front of
> > their name to show up first. Does anyone have any suggestions on how
> > to prevent this?
>
> > Ideally I could use a regexp to strip out any of these characters from
> > the front of a name, but I'm not sure how to implement this in my
> > define_index block.
>
> > Thanks.
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