[Rails] Re: How to write an ActiveRecord conditions containing null?

> > This should be so easy to implement that I am not sure why it has not
> > already been done.
>
> Interesting question.  I've never needed this except as part of complex
> queries where I'm already writing SQL anyway, but YMMV.

It occurred to me while working on my very first RoR gig. I
'inherited' a DB with a column for the status of the record where NULL
and the empty value 'meant' the same thing and an asterisk (*) meant
that the record was 'soft-deleted'. I ended up writing a lot of
functionality just to get the correct records. It didn't help that I
didn't know that much RoR at the time. Not that I know much more
now... However I could see that the problem I was facing should be
pretty common and was hoping to find an ActiveRecord solution, but I
never did find it.

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