I wanted to search for a value in DB and the column data is comma separated values say …

foo,bar,hey,hay

Now I wanted to find a record based on the value …say …hay

MySQL’s FIND_IN_SET comes into play and it works as follows

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<%
Model.find(:first, :conditions => ["FIND_IN_SET(?,search_column)", search_string])
%>

Hope this helps!