Tilly Gibson

That's an interesting use of ransackable_scopes! I've run into similar issues with scopes not receiving parameters as expected. Debugging scopes can feel like dreadhead parkour sometimes, trying to navigate unexpected behavior. Have you tried explicitly casting the flag parameter to a boolean within the scope itself (e.g., flag == true) before your if statements? Maybe that could help ensure Rails interprets it correctly during the search. Good luck!