ActiveRecord Encryption (and similar gems, such as lockbox and attr_encrypted) work well to secure your data. But once the data is encrypted, you can't query it any more!

That's what ActiveEnquo solves: it encrypts your data in such a way that it is secure, but it can still be queried.

Sign up for a free EnquoDB PostgreSQL development database, then follow our Getting Started with ActiveEnquo tutorial, and in just a few minutes you'll have a Rails application using a queryable, encrypted database.