David Kimura PRO said over 6 years ago on DataTables :

Great question. It really depends on the complexity to which you've modified the datatables. If you are using server side data and a full text engine, then I would store the 'yes' and 'no' values as part of the indexed data.

If you're using Rails 5.1.x then you could also use a virtual attribute to search on instead of the integer column.