I definitely find myself looking for orphans to clean up my database. What 
about adding a method scope as "missing_#{relationship_name}"

Book.missing_author #without a parent

Author.missing_books #without children


On Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 5:41:53 PM UTC-5, Tom Rossi wrote:
>
> Its common for me to look for orphans and I typically do it like this:
>
> Child.eager_load(:parent).where(parents: { id: nil })
>
> I would like to propose putting together a PR for something like this:
>
> Child.missing(:parent)
> Parent.missing(:children)
>
> Please let me know if others are interested in the functionality and I 
> would love to give it a shot!
>

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