Compare this sql query and corresponding ruby code

Rails
1

Hi
Suppose I have a two models Ticket and Activity

Ticket has_many activities
Activity belongs_to Ticket

Now suppose if the Activity has field name Now for a Ticket with

id=1 say there are 10 activities So to update name of all activities I
can directly wite the sql statement

update activities set name=‘somename’ where ticket_id=1

So I am writing this like

ticket = Ticket.find(1)
ticket.activities.each do |a|
a.update_attribute(:name => ‘somename’)
end
But what about the performance Is both the above query and the ruby
code has same performance What is actually the generated sql for the
ruby code
Or Am I wrong? Is there any other way of doing this same like sql
above?

Thanks in advance
Sijo

2

Hi
I tried like
Activity.update_all(“name=‘hi’”, :conditions => [“ticket_id =?”,1])

But getting error
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: RuntimeError: ERROR C42703 Mcolumn
activities.conditions does not exist P42 Fparse_func.c
L1104 Runknown_attribute: UPDATE “activities” SET name=‘hi’ WHERE
(“activities”.“conditions” IN (E’ticket_id =?’,1))
Could you please correct the syntax
Sijo

3

Here’s the correct sintax:

Activity.update_all( [ ‘name = ?’, ‘hi’ ] , [“ticket_id =?”,1])

Maurício Linhares
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Sijo Kg

4

Hi
Thanks for the reply.This working ut another question how can we
specify :conditions with update_all

Sijo

5

hi,

try to look to your development log, u’ll see sql queries there.

and you might try this:

ticket = Ticket.find(1, :include => [:activity])

and see your query again

tom

Sijo Kg wrote:

update activities set name=‘somename’ where ticket_id=1
Or Am I wrong? Is there any other way of doing this same like sql
above?

Thanks in advance
Sijo

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