Couter Cache for 2 Parents?

Rails
1

Hi,
I’ve got a question about counter cache; here’s my setup:
I have 3 model classes, A, B, and C.
A has many C.
B has many C.
C belongs to both A and B.

Now I’d like to keep counters of C in both A and B for performance
reasons.
According to the rails book, this doesn’t seem to be possible, as the
counter
feature requires changes to be made through the object that maintains
the
collection (either A or B). So my question is, what’s the best way to
accomplish
this? Has anybody solved this issue before?

Cheers,
Tony

2

I don’t understand it. If you have C belongs to A and B, can’t you do a
counter-cache for both?

If you do:

a = A.new
b = B.new
c = C.new

a.cs << c
b.cs << c

That will increment both counters, or not?

Jules

3

That’s the weird part. When I tried:
a.cs << c
b.cs << c

The result I got is:
a.cs_count = 1
b.cs_count = 2

However, if I access b.cs_count right before b.cs << c, then the count
is correct. (e.g., print out the value of b.cs_count before adding c to
b.cs)

I must be missing something here. Any suggestions?

Jules wrote:

I don’t understand it. If you have C belongs to A and B, can’t you do a
counter-cache for both?

If you do:

a = A.new
b = B.new
c = C.new

a.cs << c
b.cs << c

That will increment both counters, or not?

Jules

4

I have this same setup, and here’s what worked for. Basically I added
the object a bit differently to the parents.
All I did for new new object was to set the parent instead of adding
it as a child. So in your case:

c.a_type = a
c.b_type = b

c.save

And the counts got updated correctly. It worked for me. And doing
c.destroy got decremented the count as needed.

-Nick