How to do a LIKE query in Arel and Rails?

This is how you perform a like query in arel:

users = User.arel_table
User.where(users[:name].matches("%#{user_name}%"))

PS:

users = User.arel_table
query_string = "%#{params[query]}%"
param_matches_string =  ->(param){ 
  users[param].matches(query_string) 
} 
User.where(param_matches_string.(:name)\
                       .or(param_matches_string.(:description)))

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