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Subject: Re: [Rails-core] ActiveRecord conditions: Symbol or String
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On 20/04/2012, at 2:13 PM, Michael Koziarski wrote:

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>> Hi,
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>> A quick question: in the query `Company.where(:status =3D> :active)`, =
is it OK to use the symbol (:active) as a value in the query?
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>> It definitely works with no issues at all.
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> I'm not sure I'd consider it a public stable API, but if it works, go =
wild :).

So it is not a public API and the symbols were not supposed to be used =
this way? RIght?