Frederick Cheung wrote in post #1033844:
> On Nov 26, 4:03pm, "Mohnish J." <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> Frederick Cheung wrote in post #1033717:
>
>> Hi Fred,
>>
>> Kindly correct me if I am wrong.. Are you saying I can use the inspect
>> method to get the value of the aliased "total" attribute ?
>>
> No
>> I don't think you meant that, but just confirming..
>>
>> If not, how else would I be able to get the value of total as a count of
>> all users residing in each area of a city?
>>
> users = User.select('area, count(area) as
> total').group('area').order('total
> DESC').limit(30)
> users[0].total
>
> FredHi Fred.. Thanks, This worked like magic..:). I would like to deep dive into how exactly active record is dealing with storing such queries...processing them... Rails Guides was my one stop ref but , I couldn't find trace for more examples dealing with such requirements...Where can I find more info on this ...? I tried a users.inspect, it gave me no trace of a 'total' attribute.. which data structure is being generated and used to store the result of this Rails query..?? Based on your answer.. Thanks again for your help... -- 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-talk@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.
