---
title: "gem acts_as_votable 3: vote search scopes"
author: "Yaroslav Shmarov"
date: "2021-07-17"
canonical_url: "https://blog.superails.com/gem-acts-as-votable-3-useful-scopes"
markdown_url: "https://blog.superails.com/gem-acts-as-votable-3-useful-scopes.md"
description: "this is part 3 part 2 of this post{:target=\"blank\"} part 1 of this post{:target=\"blank\"} The gem provides some nice methods to find records that a User voted…"
tags: ["ruby","rails","ruby-on-rails","acts_as_votable"]
license: "GNU AGPL v3. Credit Yaroslav Shmarov and link the canonical URL."
---

# gem acts_as_votable 3: vote search scopes

* this is part 3
* [part 2 of this post](https://blog.superails.com/gem-acts-as-votable-2){:target="blank"}
* [part 1 of this post](https://blog.superails.com/gem-acts-as-votable){:target="blank"}

### Handy ActsAsVotable scopes

The gem provides some nice methods to find records that a User voted for:

Voted:
```ruby
<%= user.find_voted_items(vote_scope: 'like') %>
```

Upvoted:
```ruby
<%= user.find_up_voted_items(vote_scope: 'like') %>
```

Downvoted:
```ruby
<%= user.find_down_voted_items(vote_scope: 'like') %>
```

Bookmarked:
```ruby
<%= user.find_voted_items(vote_scope: 'bookmark') %>
```

However, you might want to write some scopes of your own:

### Scopes - which Posts a User voted for

post.rb

```ruby
  scope :my_voted, -> (user) { where(id: user.find_voted_items.map(& :id)) }
  scope :my_un_voted, -> (user) { where.not(id: user.find_voted_items.map(& :id)) }
  scope :my_up_voted, -> (user) { where(id: user.find_up_voted_items.map(& :id)) }
  scope :my_down_voted, -> (user) { where(id: user.find_down_voted_items.map(& :id)) }
```

a view:

```ruby
<%= Post.my_voted(current_user).pluck(:id) %>
<%= Post.my_un_voted(current_user).pluck(:id) %>
<%= Post.my_up_voted(current_user).pluck(:id) %>
<%= Post.my_down_voted(current_user).pluck(:id) %>
```

### Scopes - which Users voted for a Post

a view:

```ruby
Liked by:
- @post.votes_for.up.by_type(User).voters.each do |user|
  = link_to user, user
Disliked by:
- @post.votes_for.down.by_type(User).voters.each do |user|
  = link_to user, user
```

```
<%= Post.first.votes_for.up.by_type(User).voters.pluck(:name) %>
```