Payment.joins(:account => :preference).where({:account => {:preference => {:currency => :currency } } }).to_sql
=> SELECT "payments".* FROM "payments" INNER JOIN "accounts" ON "accounts"."id" = "payments"."account_id" INNER JOIN "preferences" ON "preferences"."account_id" = "accounts"."id" WHERE "preferences"."currency" = "preferences"."currency"
=> SELECT "payments".* FROM "payments" INNER JOIN "accounts" ON "accounts"."id" = "payments"."account_id" INNER JOIN "preferences" ON "preferences"."account_id" = "accounts"."id" WHERE "preferences"."currency" = "PAYMENTS"."currency"
If the solution work fine with meta_where as well that's even better ;-)
Thanks to IRC guys hron84, injekt and SIGe
Here's the solution :
Payment.joins(:account => :preference).where{account.preference.currency == ~currency }.to_sql