Question

I’m fetching all the users by this now.
However, I want to exclude non-confirmed users.
Their confirmed_at attribute is nil.

How can I?

@search = User.search do  
    fulltext params[:search]
    paginate :page => params[:page], :per_page => 10
end  

@users = @search.results

Answer 1

First add a scope to your User model:

scope :confirmed, where("confirmed_at IS NOT NULL")

Then you have just to add the scope before the search

@search = User.confirmed.search do  
  fulltext params[:search]
  paginate :page => params[:page], :per_page => 10
end 

EDIT:

Indeed, after a test, the solution above don’t seem to work. The scope seems to be ignored. There’s another solution:

In your User model you probably have a method like this:

searchable do 
  text :lastname, :firstname
  ...
end

You have to add a condition to searchable:

searchable if: proc { |user| user.confirmed? } do 
  text :lastname, :firstname
  ...
end

EDIT 2:

There is another way if sometimes you want confirmed users and sometimes all users, but you need to modify you model too.

In you User model:

searchable do 
  text :lastname, :firstname
  boolean :confirmed do
    confirmed_at != nil
  end
  ...
end

Then in your controller

@search = User.search do  
  fulltext params[:search]
  with(:confirmed, true) # true if you want confirmed users, false for unconfirmed and if you want all users you don't write this line
  paginate :page => params[:page], :per_page => 10
end 

I hope this help