Method: Mongoid::Criterion::Exclusion#excludes

Defined in:
lib/mongoid/criterion/exclusion.rb

#excludes(attributes = {}) ⇒ Object

Adds a criterion to the Criteria that specifies values that are not allowed to match any document in the database. The MongoDB conditional operator that will be used is “$ne”.

Options:

attributes: A Hash where the key is the field name and the value is a value that must not be equal to the corresponding field value in the database.

Example:

criteria.excludes(:field => "value1")

criteria.excludes(:field1 => "value1", :field2 => "value1")

Returns: self



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# File 'lib/mongoid/criterion/exclusion.rb', line 21

def excludes(attributes = {})
  mongo_id = attributes.delete(:id)
  attributes = attributes.merge(:_id => mongo_id) if mongo_id
  update_selector(attributes, "$ne")
end