I have in my model :dicts, :cards and :idioms. Each Dict has many Cards and each Cards has many Idioms. Also, :idioms has an Integer column :kind. I would like to find out, whether a certain dict object has at least one Card which has at least one Idiom where :kind has a certain value. This is my (working) code: def has_kind?(dict,kind) Card. joins(:idioms). where("dict_id=#{dict.id} and cards.id=idioms.card_id and kind=#{kind}"). count > 0 end This works, but can it be done better? I also tried to omit at least one of the id comparision by doing something like: dict.cards.where("cards.id = ...").count > 0 but this doesn't work ("count" is not applicable in this case). -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/d91bf7a05f29d5fb78cef7d4d6ea0f0d%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.