[LRUG] Baffled by inconsistent behaviour of Rails find_by_* method

[Sam Oliver]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Mark Woods <mwoods at online.ie> wrote:

> > There are indeed those three different specification codes in the
> database,
> > and each of them begins with "4400", but why does the same method find
> only
> > one when run from the console?
>
> I'm scared... is Exammodule.find_all_by_specificationcode really
> finding partial matches when given a string argument? If so, what
> query is activerecord generating?


In MySQL's world "4400/3H" == 4400

Yet another reason to ditch mysql.

Sam
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