Select count(*) using Ruby on Rails

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Hullo. Welcome to my question.

In my controller I need to get the number of items in a table.

If I was just using MySQL, I’d do “select count(*) from blah where blah
blah blah”.

What is the way to do this in my controller? I’d like to avoid
something like Blah.find(:all, :conditions => blah blah).size

Is there a way to do the equivalent of select count(*) in the
controller?

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On 11 Dec 2008, at 16:05, Joe P. wrote:

something like Blah.find(:all, :conditions => blah blah).size

Blah.count(:all, :conditions => …)

or if you had a named_scope for that set of conditions,
Blah.some_scope.count

Fred

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Frederick C. wrote:

On 11 Dec 2008, at 16:05, Joe P. wrote:

something like Blah.find(:all, :conditions => blah blah).size

Blah.count(:all, :conditions => …)

or if you had a named_scope for that set of conditions,
Blah.some_scope.count

Fred

Beautiful. Thanks Fred, you seem to answer a lot of questions on this
board.