require 'rubygems'
require 'active_support'
 
# Turns
#  c('title LIKE ', "%#{query}%", ' AND published = ', true)
# into
#  ['title LIKE ? AND published = ?', "%#{query}%", true]
# 
# In other words, ladies and mentlegen, you can now do a find as such:
#  find(:all, :conditions => c('gender =', params[:gender], 'AND published =', true))
#
# I don't think I'll ever, ever use this myself.
def c(*conditions)
  conditions.in_groups_of(2).inject([""]) do |ary, group|
    ary[0] << "#{group[0].strip} ? "
    ary << group[1]
    ary
  end
end
 
query = "hey"
puts c('title LIKE', "%#{query}%", 'AND published =', true).inspect