Ini adalah cara raw-sql untuk mengeluarkan apa yang Anda inginkan, menurut saya:
select * from articles_users where article_id in (select articles.id from articles inner join articles_users on articles_users.article_id = articles.id where user_id = 1) and user_id = 2;
Di mana Anda dapat mengganti id pengguna di Rails:
ArticlesUser.find_by_sql(["select * from articles_users where article_id in (select articles.id from articles inner join articles_users on articles_users.article_id = articles.id where user_id = ?) and user_id = ?", @user1.id, @user2.id])
Atau untuk beberapa id::
ArticlesUser.find_by_sql(["select * from articles_users where article_id in (select articles.id from articles inner join articles_users on articles_users.article_id = articles.id where user_id = ?) and user_id IN (?)", @user1.id, [@user2.id,@user3.id]])
Jadi dari data sampel (dari pertanyaan Anda yang lain):
mysql> select * from articles_users;
+----+---------+------------+
| id | user_id | article_id |
+----+---------+------------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 |
| 7 | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | 4 | 4 |
+----+---------+------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Ini akan mengembalikan nilai sebagai berikut:
mysql> select * from articles_users where article_id in (select articles.id from articles inner join articles_users on articles_users.article_id = articles.id where user_id = 1) and user_id = 2;
+----+---------+------------+
| id | user_id | article_id |
+----+---------+------------+
| 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 2 |
+----+---------+------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from articles_users where article_id in (select articles.id from articles inner join articles_users on articles_users.article_id = articles.id where user_id = 1) and user_id = 3;
+----+---------+------------+
| id | user_id | article_id |
+----+---------+------------+
| 6 | 3 | 1 |
| 7 | 3 | 3 |
+----+---------+------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Atau untuk beberapa ID pengguna:
mysql> select * from articles_users where article_id in (select articles.id from articles inner join articles_users on articles_users.article_id = articles.id where user_id = 1) and user_id in (2,3);
+----+---------+------------+
| id | user_id | article_id |
+----+---------+------------+
| 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 |
| 7 | 3 | 3 |
+----+---------+------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Anda telah meminta cara sql - tetapi hampir pasti ada cara railsy untuk melakukan ini... tetapi ini akan membantu Anda memulai, dan Anda dapat memfaktorkannya kembali dari sini.