David Zhu wrote: > Is it possible to do a find all, and then return the # of items?
Better to use the built-in aggregate functions. http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v2.3.5/classes/ActiveRecord/Calculations/ClassMethods.html#M001357 This will perform the count in SQL and will be much more efficient than building all those ActiveRecord objects. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
