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Hello-- There must be a better way to do this. I have a class method in my model that finds averages and does a few calculations using find_by_sql. The problem I¹m encountering is that all computed columns from MySQL come back as type string. E.g., def self.find_averages(domain_id) if @@domain_average return @@domain_average else @@domain_average =

Hi All, Is there a way to do join queries with find() or is it best to use find_by_sql() instead? I''m looking to do something like: SELECT winery_name, wine_name FROM winery, wine WHERE wine.winery_id = winery.winery_id AND winery.winery_name LIKE ''Borg%''; Thanks! : ) Jason

I have an issue where I am getting a large number of records from the database and I cant afford to keep it in the memory due to performance issues. Therefore using the following would be ideal, User.find_each(:batch_size => 5000, :start => 2000) do |user| NewsLetter.weekly_deliver(user) end however, I would like to use find_by_sql since my query is user defined. Question is, is it

Hi, I''d like to do a "find_by_sql" without a model (e.g. <model name>.find_by_sql("...")) as the results I get back are a once off special, and I''m happy to handle them as an array. How do I do this? "ActiveRecord::Base.find_by_sql(...)" does not seem to work? Background - At the moment I''m doing within a model <model_name>,

Hi, I was trying to use the :select parameter to select a calculated row, but it appears that the parameter is not picked up by the paginate method. I want to add the following to the select statement: timediff(now(), created_on) as age So I tried: @story_pages, @stories = paginate :stories, {:per_page => 10, :include => ''user'', :select =>

Is a find_by_sql query cached with memcached and cached_model (http://dev.robotcoop.com/Libraries/)? Looks like the answer is no. Is there a reason for this? I have a lot of very complicated querys with a lot of unions, subquerys and joins that would greatly benefit from the cache. Going through the code I can see that the find_by_sql method is changed in cached_model.rb, but it does not call

My question is whether there''s a more idiomatic rails way of structuring this query or of redoing the underlying models. First, the ugly find_by_sql code, which is the method to generate an atom feed: def atom items_per_feed = 15 sql_query = "SELECT activities.*, users.real_name AS real_name, accounts.last_scraped_at AS last_scraped_at,

Hi, I''m doing a find_by_sql and am getting an odd error when trying to render the result to xml. The find is: children_list = find_by_sql("SELECT components.componentid, components.logicalname, versions.level, versions.branch, versions.sequence FROM components, versions where components.componentid = ''" + component_id + "''" + " AND

I want to return an int from a find_by_sql call. But when I use that result to compare to another count the error tells me I have an array. MODEL: # Returns the number of comments in a specified post def self.find_count(post_id) find_by_sql(["SELECT COUNT(*) FROM commments WHERE post_id = ?", post_id]) end CONTROLLER: def test @post =

I''m try to verify users on login. Here is my code: def self.authenticate(username,password,account_code) employee = self.find(:all, :select => "e.id, e.first_name, e.last_name, e.username, e.account_id, e.department_id, o.pay_type_id, o.admin_yn, o.payroll_yn, o.files_yn, o.dept_report_yn,e.salt, e.hashed_password", :conditions => ["e.deleted_yn=0 and

find_by_sql BREAKS THE OOP BEAUTY and perhaps we can solve that. NAMING CONVENTIONS can perhaps make find_by_sql much more clever. lets imagine that relation: publishers <- books <-> authors_books <-> authors -> universities (can''t find something else than university for that last association :) ) imagine we want to fetch every book and every associated

I''m trying to get the following statement to work using variable substitution (it works if hard-code the where (med_type) param in the inner SQL statement): med_type = ''game'' @mediaformats = MediaFormat.find_by_sql("select * from media_formats where media_formats.media_type_id = (select media_type_id from media_types where media_type = ?, :med_type) order by

I tried to use named parameters in my SQL query , using find_by_sql Order.find_by_sql ([select * from orders where amount > ? and quantity > ?", [ @amount, @quantity ] works;.. but Order.find_by_sql ([select * from orders where amount > :amount and quantity > :quantity ", [ :amount => @amt, :quantity => @qty ] is not working a I wrong or should I use a plain select

I have a bunch of queries to compute some counters, like find_by_sql(<<-SQL SELECT p.*, c.nfavourites FROM people p, ( SELECT fp.person_id, COUNT(fp.user_id) as nfavourites FROM favourite_people fp, users u WHERE fp.user_id = u.id AND u.cluster = ''#{in_cluster_of_user.cluster}'' GROUP BY fp.person_id ) as c WHERE

Hello, I was wondering if there was a method in Rails that returns the sum of a column. For example, I have a column called ''score'' and writing a SQL statement such a ''select sum(score) from table_name'' does return the sum of the values in the column. In the past (not too long ago being a newbie), I defined all sorts of methods only to discover that Rails

Why would I get an undefined method `find_by_sql'' for #Example: 0x981a4e4> for error when trying to use the find_by_sql method in my model? def init_dictionaries tables = find_by_sql( "SHOW TABLES FROM thesaurus" ) @@tables = tables.collect{ |t| t.Tables_in_thesaurus } end -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby

hi I amd tanizawa. I had problem. I can not get main.name value from below sql. "find_by_sql ''select main.id,main.name,sub.name from main left join sub on sub.id = main.id''" Please teach me how to get borth name value. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the

Hello all. I am trying to do the equivalent of: @componentlogs = Componentlog.find(:all, :conditions => [ "cl_compname like ?", @criteria ], :offset => offset, :limit => items_per_page, :order => "cl_spr DESC" ) in a find_by_sql statement. I cannot use the build in because the adaptor isn''t quite right (OCI8) When I use it I get the following error

Hi, Am relatively new to the RoR world. My question is quite simple. I have a query like such: shipmentNumbers = Order.find_by_sql(["select distinct s.id from orders o, line_items li, shipment_lines sl, shipments s where o.number=? and o.id = li.order_id and li.id = sl.line_item_id and sl.shipment_id = s.id", number]) The above query works fine. I wanted to do the same query using

I was trying to do SUM based mySQL query simliar to the following: SELECT SUM(updated_on - created_on) AS total from signups If I were to run this command in the mySQL console I would get a result. However, if I were to run it using the following command in Rails: Signup.find_by_sql("SELECT SUM(updated_on - created_on) AS total from signups") The query that is written to the log is: