[Dbix-class] Searching N rows sorting randomly

[Pedro Melo]

Hi,

On 2009/11/28, at 17:19, Alberto Simões wrote:

>  SELECT word FROM words ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 10;
>
> to get 10 random words from a database.
> I am trying to do the same query using DBIx::Class, but not sure what
> to set as order_by clause:
>
>            my @words = $schema->resultset('Word')->search(undef,
>                                                           {rows =>  
> $LIMIT,
>                                                            order_by  
> => ...????
>                                                            columns =>
> ['word']});

Untested but try order_by => \'RANDOM()'

In other places, when you need to put direct SQL, you use a scalar  
ref. Might work for order_by.

Bye,