Counting the result of a join

Rails
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(Crossposting note: Since I didn’t get any response here, I posted this
also on
ruby on rails - RubyOnRails: counting the result of a join - Stack Overflow)

I have in my model :dicts, :cards and :idioms. Each Dict has many Cards
and each Cards has many Idioms. Also, :idioms has an Integer column
:kind.

I would like to find out, whether a certain dict object has at least
one Card which has at least one Idiom where :kind has a certain value.

This is my (working) code:

def has_kind?(dict,kind)
Card. joins(:idioms). where(“dict_id=#{dict.id} and
cards.id=idioms.card_id and kind=#{kind}”). count > 0
end

This works, but can it be done better? I also tried to omit at least one
of the id comparision by doing something like:

dict.cards.where(“cards.id = …”).count > 0

but this doesn’t work (“count” is not applicable in this case).

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The solution is found here:

Basically, I need to specify in my :dicts model, that there is an
association to :cards

in class Dict:

has_many :idioms, through: :cards

After this, I can do:

idioms.where(kind: kind).exists?