Get first 4 items returned from db where title matches searched criteria

gistfile1.rb

      @items += Item.where( "lower(title) ~* ?", "#{params[:s].downcase}".split(/,\s*/).map(&:strip).reject(&:empty?).first)
      @items += Item.where( "lower(title) ~* ?", "#{params[:s].downcase}".split(/,\s*/).map(&:strip).reject(&:empty?).second)
      @items += Item.where( "lower(title) ~* ?", "#{params[:s].downcase}".split(/,\s*/).map(&:strip).reject(&:empty?).third)
      @items += Item.where( "lower(title) ~* ?", "#{params[:s].downcase}".split(/,\s*/).map(&:strip).reject(&:empty?).fourth)

To be clear... each of these 4 statements are searching through a different member of the array I give it to search through. This for instance: '4,magic,ton,bastard' would respectively go through each of those 4 statements... with '4' evaluated by the first one, and so forth...

You say different member of the array, but they are all passing the same params. Are you trying to query against an array you mean?

The first line of code here returns results that match the first search term, the second line of code returns results matching the second term... and so on. So if I enter a search query like this: "h,horse,pizza, fred," I'll get results for each of those terms returned.

Specifically, it's looking up the title attribute of my Collection object. Does that make any sense?

To answer your question regarding what's returned when I ask what class this is: 'ActiveRecord_Relation'

Everything's working with the way I wrote this code. Just wondering if there's any way to dry it up. Thanks!!!

Just thought of something dumb... I guess (at the very least) I could probs make the first half of this statement a variable and re-use that way...