Hi William, I wonder if you found an answer to your question – I am having a similar issue.
Thanks, Costa. On Jul 23, 7:12 pm, William <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a database setup like this: > > class Word > include DataMapper::Resource > > property :id, Integer, :serial => true > property :name, String, :nullable => false, :unique => true > > has n, :wordEntries > end > > class WordEntry > include DataMapper::Resource > > property :id, Integer, :serial => true > property :timestamp, DateTime > > belongs_to :word > end > > In my situation, I'm going to be counting the number of WordEntries > for a given Word often, and I'll be relying on soring Words by > Word.wordEntries.count. As I understand it, DataMapper can't do this > without resorting to DataMapper.repository.adapter.query (please do > correct me if I'm wrong). > > Does anyone have a suggestion for a better design than this? The only > other thing I can think of is putting in hooks and adding a > "numEntries" field to the Words table that is manually updated. > > Thanks, > William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
