Querying an array field that contains hashes in mongoid

mongodb, mongoid, ruby, ruby-on-rails

Solution

I've seem to have find the answer... For anyone left, I will post it here.

User.where(c: {'$elemMatch' => {name: 'a'}})

It will return all the Users, whose categories array has one or more element with a name of 'a'.

Problem

I have a model like this ``` class User include Mongoid::Document field :c, as: :categories, type: Array end ``` and I am storing information on it like this: ``` a = UserCheckin.new a.c = [{id: rand(1000), name: 'a'}, {id: rand(1000), name: 'b'}, {id: rand(1000), name: 'c'}] a.save ``` I do not know if I am misusing the array type by storing hashes on it, but the thing is that mongodb does not complain about it. How do I query something like Users where category name is 'a' or category id is higher than 2? Thanks in advance,

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