Ransack search and translations

Question

I´m trying to make ransack work on a model that has an association with a translation table.

Translations are managed by globalize gem.

The problem is when I

Answer 1

Globalize gives you a class method of with_translations like:

User.with_translations('en')

And so you can set up your own scope on your model that takes advantage of this like:

def self.with_translated_name(name_string)
  with_translations(I18n.locale).where('user_translations.name' => name_string)
end

Then you can expose this scope in your ransackable_scopes array in the model in question, like:

private

def self.ransackable_scopes   
  %i(with_translated_name) 
end

With that in place you should be able to do:

User.ransack({ with_translated_name: "John" })