On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Daro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Supose I have a simple has_many relationship betwen model_1 and
> model_2:
>
> class Model1 < ActiveRecord::Base
>    has_many :models_2
> end
>
> class Model2 < ActiveRecord::Base
>    belongs_to :model_1
> end
>
> Now, I create an instance of Model2 through the relationship:
>
> irb>m1 = Model1.first
> irb>m2 = m1.models_2.new
>
> Now, if I want to ask for the size of the relationship, there's a huge
> difference between Rails 3.0.x and Rails 3.1.
>
> Following the previous example, in Rails 3.0.x i get:
>
> irb>m1.models_2.any?
> irb>false
> irb>m1.models_2.size
> irb>0
>
> This means, new objects are not being considered
>
> This exact same query in Rails 3.1:
>
> irb>m1.models_2.any?
> irb>true #OMG!!
> irb>m1.models_2.size
> irb>1
> So, the solution is:
>
> irb>m1.models_2.all.any?
> irb>false
> irb>m1.models_2.all.size
> irb>0
>
> If I have to change ALL my relationships with .all, I'm in a big
> trouble... am I missing something?
> Thank you very much.

Looking a 
thttps://github.com/rails/rails/blob/v3.1.0/activerecord/lib/active_record/relation.rb#L141-143
(and the same in v3.0.10, for example) I can't figure out why that
isn't the same, since the code is pretty much the same, so I'm
probably missing something.

That said, you have 3 ways of querying the size of an ActiveRecord relation:

* #length will load all the objects into an array (unless they are
already loaded) and then return the array's size.
* #count will force a DB count and return that result, without loading
the model instances into memory.
* #size will, if the objects are already loaded in an array, return
the #length, or otherwise call #count.

So you don't need to force an "all", that will load your objects in
memory. Just calling #count should do.

Cheers,
-foca

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