class Course < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :registrations
delegate :count, to: :registrations, prefix: true
end
class Registration < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :course
end
In my view of the Courses indexes, I show the number of registrations for each entry. What is the best thing for? Usage includes (: registrations) with the delegated method registrations_count looking slower (in the console) than doing the database count in the main query.
I want to show all the entries, so I cannot use INNER join (). Using includes () as shown below gives an error PG::GroupingError: ERROR: column "registrations.id" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function. I tried adding the where clause to: register for this, but it is still wrong:
Course.includes(:registrations).group("courses.id").select("courses.*, COUNT(registrations.id) as registrations_count")
Is it correct to specify the outer join as follows:
Course.joins('LEFT OUTER JOIN registrations ON registrations.course_id = courses.id').select('courses.*, COUNT(registrations.id) as registrations_count').group('courses.id')
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