Rails3 and Arel to select using IN and subselect

Question

I have a table called translations. (And a correspoding ActiveRecord class). This table contains the following fields id, key and value

I would like to select all translations where the key matches a given query + all the translations that don't match the query, but share the key with a translation which does matches the query.

The resulting SQL could look something like this:

SELECT * FROM TRANSLATIONS where key in (select key from Translations where value like '%some search%')

I've tried a few things, but I can't seem to figure it out. Any ideas on how to express this in Arel?

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

t = Table(:translations)
c = t.where(t[:value].matches('%some search%')).project(:key)
t.where(t[:key].in(c))