Searching parent objects and associated objects with one search

Rails
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Three simple models setup with :through association

Person
has_many :readings
has_many :books, :through => :readings

Reading
belongs_to :person
belongs_to :book

Book
has_many :readings
has_many :persons, :through => :readings

I want to search persons names and all his books names and return
matching persons. how do i correctly form a search like this
syntatically wrong one

Person.find(:all, :conditions => [“person.name LIKE ? and book.name
LIKE ?”, “%#{params[:person_name]}%”, “%#{params[:book_name]}%”])

tia,
yogi

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Yogi wrote:

belongs_to :book

Person.find(:all, :conditions => [“person.name LIKE ? and book.name
LIKE ?”, “%#{params[:person_name]}%”, “%#{params[:book_name]}%”])

That looks syntactically correct. It just needs a little tweaking:

Person.find(:all, :select => ‘DISTINCT people.*’, :joins => :books,
:conditions => [“people.name LIKE ? AND books.name LIKE ?”,
“%#{params[:person_name]}%”, “%#{params[:book_name]}%”]

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Thanks for Mark for the ‘tuning’. Now that I think of this, can I add
another associated table (reviews) and include that into the search
also? What I mean is that if the models are

Person
has_many :readings
has_many :books, :through => :readings
has_many :reviews

Reading
belongs_to :person
belongs_to :book

Book
has_many :readings
has_many :persons, :through => :readings

Review
belongs_to :person

Now I would like to form a search like below

Person.find(:all,
:conditions => [“people.name LIKE ? AND
books.name LIKE ? AND
reviews.rating LIKE ?”,
“%#{params[:person_name]}%”,
“%#{params[:book_name]}%”,
“%#{params[:rating]}%”])

How would I use :joins to make the above to work?

tia,
yogi

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Yogi wrote:

    belongs_to :person

Now I would like to form a search like below

Person.find(:all,
:conditions => [“people.name LIKE ? AND
books.name LIKE ? AND
reviews.rating LIKE ?”,
“%#{params[:person_name]}%”,
“%#{params[:book_name]}%”,
“%#{params[:rating]}%”])

How would I use :joins to make the above to work?

Use the :joins option just like :include. So

:joins => [:books, :reviews]

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