Simple search on a Globalize3 table in Rails

You're in luck, I tackled exactly the same problem recently!

Luckly for you the answer is quite simple. You can use the class method with_translations to include translations for a given set of locales.

Here's the code:

def with_translations(*locales)
  locales = translated_locales if locales.empty?
  includes(:translations).with_locales(locales).with_required_attributes
end

Include it in your search method:

def self.search(search)
  if search
    with_translations.where('name LIKE ?', "%#{search}%")
  else
    with_translations
  end
end

That should do it.

As an added note: you could add an optional locales parameter to the search method and pass it to with_translations to optionally narrow the search to terms in a particular language, say for example in the current locale.