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Add ActiveRecord Query For This Or That as a rails til
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# ActiveRecord Query For This Or That
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When including multiple `where` clauses on a query, we are adding more
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specificity to the resulting `ActiveRecord` relation -- it's like saying we
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want records that match this _and_ that. But what about when we want to find
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records that match this _or_ that?
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This is supported by `ActiveRecord` through the `or` query method.
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Let's say we want all books that are either unpublished _or_ are published in
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2019.
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```ruby
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> Book.where(status: 'unpublished').or(Book.where(publication_year: 2019))
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=> #<ActiveRecord::Relation [...]>
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```
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This will generate SQL that includes a `where` clause like the following:
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```sql
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where (books.status = 'unpublished' or books.publication_year = 2019)
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```
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See the
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[docs](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/QueryMethods.html#method-i-or)
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for more details.
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