Sending Nil value to Rails API in Query String from JS

I’m querying a Searchkick endpoint where I want to find all results where a field is nil.

The query in the console

Product.search('*', where: { category_id: nil })

correctly returns results.

When passed from the client nil, null and all others are interpreted as strings so my query becomes

Product.search('*', where: { category_id: 'nil' })

Is there a rails way or a specific encoding to use for query strings to allow it to be correctly parsed as nil without diving into the params hash and searching for strings?

Thank you

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