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Rails Query with ILIKE

I have written a finder as follows: params[:manufacturer] comes through in a form of a string that has been .parameterized by Rails. The problem is that a string with an “‘” or an “&” in it doesn’t get matched by ILIKE correctly. So as an example, some strings that are …

LEFT OUTER JOIN on array column with multiple values

I cannot seem to find the trick to join two tables through an array column when one table is not an array value, and the other table’s array value can contain multiple values. It does work when there …

PostgreSQL Foreign Key syntax

I have 2 tables as you will see in my PosgreSQL code below. The first table students has 2 columns, one for student_name and the other student_id which is the Primary Key. In my second table called tests, this has 4 columns, one for subject_id, one for the subject_name, then one for a student with the highest…

Replace [ ] bracket in a string

I have a string that includes brackets, [], around a number. Since this string represents my column names for a SQL database I need to remove/replace them. So far I do it in the following way: It works fine, but it looks ugly for me since I have to do that for [1] to [20]. Is there a way to