* Allow the chaining of conditions off of a search object. Ex: search…

….username_like("bjohnson").age_gt(20).all

CHANGELOG.rdoc

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+== 2.0.1
+
+* Allow the chaining of conditions off of a search object. Ex: search.username_like("bjohnson").age_gt(20).all
+
 == 2.0.0
 
 * Everything, completely rewritten.

README.rdoc

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Any named scope Searchlogic creates is dynamic and created via method_missing. M
 
 That's all pretty standard, but here's where Searchlogic starts to get interesting...
 
-== Search using conditions on association columns
+== Search using conditions on associated columns
 
 You also get named scopes for any of your associations:
 
@@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ What's great about this is that you can do just about anything you want. If Sear
 
 Every condition you've seen in this readme also has 2 related conditions that you can use. Example:
 
-  User.username_like_any("bjohnson", "thunt")   # will return any users that have either of those strings in their username
-  User.username_like_all("bjohnson", "thunt")   # will return any users that have all of those string in their username
-  User.username_like_any(["bjohnson", "thunt"]) # also accept an array
+  User.username_like_any("bjohnson", "thunt")   # will return any users that have either of the strings in their username
+  User.username_like_all("bjohnson", "thunt")   # will return any users that have all of the strings in their username
+  User.username_like_any(["bjohnson", "thunt"]) # also accepts an array
 
 This is great for checkbox filters, etc. Where you can pass an array right from your form to this condition.
 

lib/searchlogic/search.rb

@@ -71,7 +71,12 @@ def method_missing(name, *args, &block)
             raise UnknownConditionError.new(name)
           end
         elsif scope?(normalize_scope_name(name))
-          conditions[name]
+          if args.size > 0
+            send("#{name}=", *args)
+            self
+          else
+            conditions[name]
+          end
         else
           scope = conditions.inject(klass.scoped(current_scope)) do |scope, condition|
             scope_name, value = condition

spec/search_spec.rb

@@ -68,6 +68,14 @@
       search.username_gt.should == "bjohnson"
     end
 
+    it "should allow chainging conditions" do
+      user = User.create(:username => "bjohnson", :age => 20)
+      User.create(:username => "bjohnson", :age => 5)
+      search = User.search
+      search.username_equals("bjohnson").age_gt(10)
+      search.all.should == [user]
+    end
+
     it "should allow setting association conditions" do
       search = User.search
       search.orders_total_gt = 10