I think, you must have Post-'has many-Comments relationship
So, to find number of comments:
post.comments.count will give you total number of comments of a post.
-Gourav
On Sep 18, 10:58 am, Mark polluxop...@gmail.com wrote:
I have posts and comments, and I'd like to display the number of
That did it. I think I've been staring at the monitor too
long... :-)
On Sep 18, 2:34 am, Gourav gouravtiwar...@gmail.com wrote:
I think, you must have Post-'has many-Comments relationship
So, to find number of comments:
post.comments.count will give you total number of comments of a post.
Depending on performance needs, you can also look at the counter_cache
option for the ActiveRecord association.
Your current approach has to query the child table to get the count,
which could be a performance hit on a big site.
Don't prematurely optimize though - it's just good to know about
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