RoR 4, Elasticsearch and searchkick. How to do a conditional search?

Question

Ruby on Rails

Hello.
To search in the project, I use Elasticsearch and the searchkick gem.
What is the correct way to use the where method? It is necessary that from the User table the search and output of results be with the condition, the field sex = 'male'.
Controller

if params[:query].present?
  query = params[:query]
  @user_array = User.search(query)

view

- @user_array.each do |user|
  ...

If you add
@res_male = User.where(sex: 'male') to the
controller and then do @user_array = @res_male.search(query), it will swear - undefined method `search' for #

Answer 1

@user_array = User.search(query, where: {sex: 'male'})

This is written in the gem's dock: https://github.com/ankane/searchkick#queries