Discrepancies in function calls in ruby server and ruby console?

Question

New to ruby, trying to figure out how to debug this problem - I've been working on a search method, and the search call returns correctly on the server, but not the console.

Item.where() { has_keyword "phone" }

returns [] on the server, returns a list with 15 objects on the console. What kinds of differences exist between the server and console? Where should I start looking?

make sure each is using the same environment. `Rails.env` should both be development or production — Jesse Wolgamott, Oct 31 '12 at 18:57
Check the database name in both development and production. It should be same.. — vijikumar, Oct 31 '12 at 19:01
@JesseWolgamott: the Rails.env variables are both "development". Any other ideas? (Thanks for the suggestions!) — user1789506, Oct 31 '12 at 19:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

is "has_keyword" a function inside of your app or a function that is native to rails? If you have written that function yourself you may need to include the file before you can access the function from rails.

How do I call controller/view methods from the console in Rails?

My advise would be to write the function as a model scope so you can then access it by saying something like Item.has_keyword("Phone")

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html#scopes

Discrepancies in function calls in ruby server and ruby console?

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