Nice! That's better :)

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Chap <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That's a good point.
>
> I ended up going with
> Task.find(:all, :select => 'DISTINCT project_id')
>
> Which isn't that railsy, but seems to use more appropriate sql.
>
> On Sep 17, 2:56 pm, Pedro Belo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> humm. I think the "Rails way" in this case is to define which task you
>> want when a project can have multiple, and make it a new association.
>>
>> Like:
>>
>> class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
>>   has_many :tasks
>>   has_one    :last_task, :class_name => 'Task', :order => 'created_at DESC'
>> ...
>>
>> Then you can get tasks with Project.find(:all, :include => :last_task,
>> :conditions => 'tasks.id IS NOT NULL').map(&:last_task)
>>
>> There's certainly a way to do the same with a big sql select/condition
>> but I don't think it will be as readable. Either way, :group is not a
>> good solution imho because you're not really using any of the
>> aggregate functions.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Chap <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Than I only want one returned.
> >
>

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