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2011 May 24
4
Rails hates my recursive function
...* in the form "adam smith" The goal is to allow my users to enter either
names separated by a space, or the student id number into a single search
field and have the results be returned based on the format of the query.
I came up with the following code in my student model
def self.insert_dashes(term)
if /^([A-Z]|[a-z]|\d|-){11}$/.match(term)
term.insert 3, ''-''
term.insert 6,''-''
end
end
def self.find_record(rec)
if /^([A-Z]|[a-z]|\d|-){11}$/.match(rec)
student=Student.where(:studentID=>rec).all
elsif /^([A-Z\s]|[a-z\s])+$/.match(rec...