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...ng in a tree structure (in this case Bob Silva''s threaded list). This is the definition: class Folder < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_threaded has_many :files end I would like each parent to have the total count of all the childrens member. So when inserting a new file I update the file_count following the parent_id through all the folders until I reach root. (Looking into the db I see the correct values so this seems to work). But I hit a problem when trying to read the file_count value from the database: the code: @folders = Folder.find(:all, :order => ''root_id desc,...