Phil
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Todd A. Jacobs < [email protected]> wrote: > Sorry if this is a duplicate post, but Google Groups is having issues > again. :( > > I have the following named scope in a Rails 3.0.5 model: > > scope :past_due, > where('NOT complete AND requested_start_date < ?', > Date.today). > order('requested_start_date ASC') > > and I'd like to have a named scope that reuses the :past_due scope to > return a count of matching records. It's easy to do in the controller, > but I can't seem to find the right incantation to create > a :past_due_count scope in the model. > > What is the right way to do this? > You usually don't use a scope to return a count; you use it to return an array, some subset of #all. If you just need the count of the same scope, won't Model.past_due.count work? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
