# Limiting search results to current\_user

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-search-results-to-current-user/57545>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 9, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-search-results-to-current-user/57545 "2016-08-09T03:19:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bensmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bensmalley/32/11268_2.png) [@bensmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bensmalley)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-search-results-to-current-user/57545/1 "2016-08-09T03:19:48Z")

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I am pretty new to Rails and ES. I have a query that was working and now I want to limited the results to only the current\_user but I am having trouble with what to include in my controller.

It doesn't like the where method - thanks for any help

```ruby
@galleries = Gallery.search params[:q], where: {user_id: current_user.id}

	def self.search(query, user_id)
    __elasticsearch__.search(
      {
         query: {
           bool: {
             must: [{
              multi_match: {
                query: query,
                fields: ['name', 'memory', 'memory_date']
              }
            }],
            filter: [{
              term: {"user_id" => user_id}
            }]
          }
        }
   }
)
end

```

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-search-results-to-current-user/57545/2 "2016-08-09T10:20:13Z")

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If you could reproduce it with a curl recreation that'd be easier.

Here, the query looks good.

But as we don't know your documents, your mapping, the exact queries, that's hard to say.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-search-results-to-current-user/57545/3 "2017-07-05T22:29:08Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 10:29pm UTC