I had some queries that were not working and I couldn’t figure out how to make them work. Basically, I was looking for fields with nil values, so I tried:
Model.where(‘variable = ?’, nil)….and didn’t get any results
So just for the heck of it, I tried:
Model.where(‘variable != ?’, nil)…but still no results. How is that possible? It either has to be a value or it isn’t right?
Well, apparently you can’t use normal comparison operands with nil/null. However, instead of =, you can compare for nil using <=>
So I ended up doing:
Model.where(‘variable <=> ?’, nil)
and it worked, finding the nil values.
