Calculations on a virtual attribute

Rails
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I is possible to do calculations on a virtual attribute… such as
sum, or count

I tried using the same as I would on a DB column but of course that
doesn’t work. ie. Pricelist.sum(:cyberguide)

I have a table with 2 fields, one with a price and the other with a
condition then have a virtual attribute which does a calculation:

def cyberguide
if condition <= 2
[price.pricehigh]
elsif condition == 3
[price.pricehigh * 0.9]
elsif condition == 4
[price.pricehigh * 0.5]
elsif condition == 5
[price.pricehigh * 0.25]
elsif condition == 6
[price.pricehigh * 0.2]
else
[price.pricehigh * 0.15]
end
end

It works perfectly for individual functions, but how would a sum the
virtual attribute?

Thanks

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On May 3, 7:55 am, holden [email protected] wrote:

I is possible to do calculations on a virtual attribute… such as
sum, or count

I tried using the same as I would on a DB column but of course that
doesn’t work. ie. Pricelist.sum(:cyberguide)

You’re going to have to construct an appropriate sql fragment, eg
according to the docs you can do Pricelist.sum(“2 * price”) - you just
need that on steroids.

Fred