# Hiding private records from search results (Thinking Sphinx)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hiding-private-records-from-search-results-thinking-sphinx/147876>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 6, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hiding-private-records-from-search-results-thinking-sphinx/147876 "2008-09-06T12:34:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hiding-private-records-from-search-results-thinking-sphinx/147876/1 "2008-09-06T12:34:26Z")

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If your app has an is\_private boolean attribute on certain models, and  
records where Model.is\_private? == true should be ignored from search  
results, would you define these records to be ignored in the search  
indices (not that I know how to do this with Thinking Sphinx) or would  
you use conditions in the search (?);

User.search “Australia”, :conditions =\> {:is\_private =\> false}