Using the Farmer/Cow example from the Pro Active Record book, assume the
following:
Farmers are related to Cows such that Farmers have_many Cows and Cows
belong_to Farmers. That is, a plain old one-to-many association.
However, not all farmers have cows. Some just grow vegetables. So how do I
find all the farmers who have cows?
Something like this would be nice:
farmers = Farmer.find(:all, :conditions => !farmers.cows.empty?)
But this doesn''t work, of course. Neither AWD nor the Active Record
book get
into this kind of thing. Is there any way to do this with Active Record? Or
do I just need to use a SQL statement?
TIA: John
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On Nov 28, 2007 10:37 AM, Identry <identry-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Using the Farmer/Cow example from the Pro Active Record book, assume the > following: > > Farmers are related to Cows such that Farmers have_many Cows and Cows > belong_to Farmers. That is, a plain old one-to-many association. > > However, not all farmers have cows. Some just grow vegetables. So how do I > find all the farmers who have cows? > > Something like this would be nice: > > farmers = Farmer.find(:all, :conditions => !farmers.cows.empty?) > > But this doesn''t work, of course. Neither AWD nor the Active Record book get > into this kind of thing. Is there any way to do this with Active Record? Or > do I just need to use a SQL statement?I think the most efficient way would be: Farmer.find :all, :conditions => ''id in (select farmer_id from cows)'' --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Bob, That did it. Thanks. -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---