On 17 Mar., 16:27, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 17 Mar., 16:05, Nish Patel <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > as you may have gathered I am a newbie to rails and programming. I
> > want to count the number of enquiries in the database and produce it as
> > a number in the view preferably in the index page. All I want is the
> > number of items in the database and everytime ones added or deleted the
> > number will go up or down.
>
> > Something like this:
>
> > Enquries Today: 'whatever the number of them are'
>
> > Thank you clever people!!!!
>
> Assuming the name of your model is Item, you can do it this way:
>
> Enquries Today: <%= Item.count %>
>
> Just replace "Item" with whatever your model is called. #count is a
> method provided by ActiveRecord, that will return the number of
> records in the table that the table belongs to, "items" for example.
* in the model that the table belongs to, "items" for example.
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