patmaddox

Hola Rails people. I have a column in my database that I need to treat
as case-insensitive. The standard solution to this is to downcase the
value before inserting it into the database, and when doing
searches. My problems with this are:

1. I have to make calls to String#downcase in several places where I
*really* mean "this is case-insensitive"

2. I can only provide automatic-downcasing when going through the API
I provide. Anyone calling MyClass.where(:name => foo) has to know to