On 6 Apr 2009, at 00:10, Morgan Morgan wrote:
> example: say i wanted to see how many records showed female in the
> users
> table but i didn't actually want to pull a bunch of info, i just want
> the number returned.
Use the count method: Person.count("gender", :conditions=>["gender=?",
"female"])
There are more calculation methods available in the ActiveRecord
Calculations model if you check the documentation.
-Matt
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