conditions_fu
    by Cameron Barrie
    http://wiki.github.com/whalec/conditions_fu

== DESCRIPTION:

A little DSL to allow you to map url parameters to an Active Record conditions array.

== TODO:
Everything. I've only onlined my intentions here.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

  allows you to map rules to url parameters when posting from a form with a get. 
  
  i.e. if you're request was:
  http://local.host/users/search?admin=1&email=camwritescode
  
  it would map to an active record conditions array like
  
  ["admin IS ? and email ~* ?", true, 'camwritescode']

== SYNOPSIS:

ConditionsFu::Builder.blueprint(:user) do
  is_true("admin" => params[:admin])
  includes({:parents_last_name => params[:surname]}, :or) do
    includes({:last_name => params[:surname]}, :or)
    is_like("parent_email" => params[:email]) do
      is_true(:child => params[:child])
    end
  end
end
params = {:surname => "Barrie", :email => "cam@snepo.com", :child => false, :admin => true}
conditions = ConditionsFu::Builder.make(params) 
# => ["admin = ? AND (parents_last_name ~* ? OR last_name ~* ? OR (parent_email ILIKE ? AND child = ?))", true, "Barrie", "Barrie", "%cam@snepo.com%", true]

So then you can
User.find(:all, :conditions => ConditionsFu::Builder.make(params))

For more examples check the specs directory.

== REQUIREMENTS:

Currently it only works for Postgres as it's the only DB that I work with. Patches are happily accepted though :D

== INSTALL:

sudo gem install conditions_fu

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 FIXME (different license?)

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