On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Julian Leviston <jul...@coretech.net.au>wrote:

>
> On 27/05/2009, at 9:16 PM, Conrad Taylor wrote:
>
> > An Array instance can respond to both count and size methods.  If
> > you use size the method with a counter
> > cache column on the has_many side, you can cache the total.  For
> > example, you can do something
> > like this
> >
>
> Hi. Not sure where you got that from.
>
> Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.2)
>  >> [].count
> NoMethodError: undefined method `count' for []:Array
>        from (irb):1
>  >> [].size
> => 0
>  >>
>
>
This statements are only true in Ruby prior to Ruby 1.8.6.  For example, in
Ruby 1.9.1, one can easily do the following:

irb(main):001:0> [].count
=> 0
irb(main):002:0> [].size
=> 0

-Conrad


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