I've been trying to find a proper solution for this problem but didn't succeed. I know that we can't do select with include statement.
For example I have a model called Parent which have many children. I tried following things
1) When I tried this
Parent.includes(:children).select("parent.name, children.age")
Rails completely ignores the select clause.
2) Then I tried this
Parent.joins(:children).select("parent.name, children.age")
The select clause works but instead of returning a nested object it returns me a flat array of objects. So I have to again run a group by command on it to make it nested.
3) I found something called preload, but again not enough documentation for it.
I'm tired of finding a solution to this problem. Can someone point me in a right direction.
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By nested object I meant I should be able to do things like
#parents.each do |parent|
puts parent.name
parent.children.each do |child|
puts child.age
end
end
I can achieve this with include but then it selects all attributes which are not needed.
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I've spent several hours going through StackOverflow and playing around with this query, but still can't get it to work! Hopefully an expert here on SO can make the pain go away...
I have two models, Event and EventInstance. An Event has_many EventInstances.
What I want to do is easily get a list of Events (not EventInstances), where:
Events are distinct and not repeated
Events are sorted by the start_date of the nearest EventInstance
Event instances have the attribute :active => true
Only event instances that have a start date in the future are returned
I currently have the query
Event.joins(:event_instances).select('distinct events.*').where('event_instances.start_date >= ?', Time.now).where('event_instances.active = true')
This returns a list of events, but not sorted by date. Excellent - so I am almost there!
If I change the query to add this on the end:
.order('event_instances.start_date')
I get the error:
PG::InvalidColumnReference: ERROR: for SELECT DISTINCT, ORDER BY expressions must appear in select list
So I moved it to the select statement:
select('distinct event_instances.start_date, events.*')
Now I get
PG::UndefinedFunction: ERROR: function count(date, events) does not exist
I've tried moving methods around, using includes, everything but I still can't get it to work. Any help would be really appreciated! Thank you.
try changing
.order('event_instances.start_date')
to
.order(:event_instances.start_date)
or if you need descending order add the .reverse_order method to the end of the query
This is the exact query which worked for my models Post and PostComments on both MySQL and PostgreSQL:
Post.joins(:post_comments).select('distinct post_comments.body, post_comments.created_at').order('post_comments.created_at desc')
So for you, it's equivalent should work too. If it still doesn't then please update your post with the fields of your model.
I have a list of Products with a field called 'Title' and I have been trying to get a list of initial letters with not much luck. The closes I have is the following that dosn't work as 'Distinct' fails to work.
atoz = Product.objects.all().only('title').extra(select={'letter': "UPPER(SUBSTR(title,1,1))"}).distinct('letter')
I must be going wrong somewhere,
I hope someone can help.
You can get it in python after the queryset got in, which is trivial:
products = Project.objects.values_list('title', flat=True).distinct()
atoz = set([i[0] for i in products])
If you are using mysql, I found another answer useful, albeit using sql(django execute sql directly):
SELECT DISTINCT LEFT(title, 1) FROM product;
The best answer I could come up with, which isn't 100% ideal as it requires post processing is this.
atoz = sorted(set(Product.objects.all().extra(select={'letter': "UPPER(SUBSTR(title,1,1))"}).values_list('letter', flat=True)))
I have been messing around with orientdb sql, and I was wondering if there is a way to update an edge of a vertex, together with some data on it.
assuming I have the following data:
Vertex: Person, Room
Edge: Inside (from Person to Room)
something like:
UPDATE Persons SET phone=000000, out_Inside=(
select #rid from Rooms where room_id=5) where person_id=8
obviously, the above does not work. It throws exception:
Error: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.orientechnologies.orient.core.id.ORecordId cannot be cast to com.orientechnologies.orient.core.db.record.ridbag.ORidBag
I tried to look at the sources at github searching for a syntax for bag with 1 item,
but couldn't find any (found %, but that seems to be for serialization no for SQL).
(1) Is there any way to do that then? how do I update a connection? Is there even a way, or am I forced to create a new edge, and delete the old one?
(2) When writing this, it came to my mind that perhaps edges are not the way to go in this case. Perhaps I should use a LINK instead. I have to say i'm not sure when to use which, or what are the implications involved in using any of them. I did found this though:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/orient-database/xXlNNXHI1UE
comment 3 from the top, of Lvc#, where he says:
"The suggested way is to always create an edge for relationships"
Also, even if I should use a link, please respond to (1). I would be happy to know the answer anyway.
p.s.
In my scenario, a person can only be at one room. This will most likely not change in the future. Obviously, the edge has the advantage that in case I might want to change it (however improbable that may be), it will be very easy.
Solution (partial)
(1) The solution was simply to remove the field selection. Thanks for Lvca for pointing it out!
(2) --Still not sure--
CREATE EDGE and DELETE EDGE commands have this goal: avoid the user to fight with underlying structure.
However if you want to do it (a little "dirty"), try this one:
UPDATE Persons SET phone=000000, out_Inside=(
select from Rooms where room_id=5) where person_id=8
update EDGE Custom_Family_Of_Custom
set survey_status = '%s',
apply_source = '%s'
where #rid in (
select level1_e.#rid from (
MATCH {class: Custom, as: custom, where: (custom_uuid = '%s')}.bothE('Custom_Family_Of_Custom') {as: level1_e} .bothV('Custom') {as: level1_v, where: (custom_uuid = '%s')} return level1_e
)
)
it works well
This is just a quick question on performance in an sql query using ruby and rails.
Basically I have a parent model and a bunch of children which have the variable of parent_ID.
I first gather all the parents with a specific condition and then I cycle through each parent finding any children that match.
Unfortunately this is incredibly slow and I was wondering if theres any help going in optimizing it.
#parents = Parent.where(:parent_id => 3) #This is passed in from params
#childrenArray =[]
#parents.each_with_index do |parent, index|
#TOOSLOW
#childrenArray[index] = Child.find(:all,:order=>"id",:conditions =>{:parent_ID=> parent.id})
end
One thing I thought is perhaps I should make an array of all the parent Ids to be searched and then do something like
child.find_by_parent_ID(myarrayofnumbershere)
However I don't know if this would be any better.
Any help or advice appreciated.
I'm very new to SQL and ruby. I'm aware a table joins would have been ideal here but I think I'm a bit late in my development to try it now. Also I need to serve up 2 seperate arrays. one of the parents and one of the children.
Try using the include method, like so:
#parents = Parent.where(:parent_id => 3).include(:children)
Now rails will have fetched the associated children and you should be able to loop over #parents and access their children without additional queries, like so:
#parents.each do |p|
puts "#{p}'s children: #{p.children}"
end
In rails 3, I would like to do the following:
SomeModel.where(:some_connection_id => anArrayOfIds).select("some_other_connection_id")
This works, but i get the following from the DB:
[{"some_other_connection_id":254},{"some_other_connection_id":315}]
Now, those id-s are the ones I need, but I am uncapable of making a query that only gives me the ids. I do not want to have to itterate over the resulst, only to get those numbers out. Are there any way for me to do this with something like :
SomeModel.where(:some_connection_id => anArrayOfIds).select("some_other_connection_id").values()
Or something of that nautre?
I have been trying with the ".select_values()" found at Git-hub, but it only returns "some_other_connection_id".
I am not an expert in rails, so this info might be helpful also:
The "SomeModel" is a connecting table, for a many-to-many relation in one of my other models. So, accually what I am trying to do is to, from the array of IDs, get all the entries from the other side of the connection. Basicly I have the source ids, and i want to get the data from the models with all the target ids. If there is a magic way of getting these without me having to do all the sql myself (with some help from active record) it would be really nice!
Thanks :)
Try pluck method
SomeModel.where(:some => condition).pluck("some_field")
it works like
SomeModel.where(:some => condition).select("some_field").map(&:some_field)
SomeModel.where(:some_connection_id => anArrayOfIds).select("some_other_connection_id").map &:some_other_connection_id
This is essentially a shorthand for:
results = SomeModel.where(:some_connection_id => anArrayOfIds).select("some_other_connection_id")
results.map {|row| row.some_other_connection_id}
Look at Array#map for details on map method.
Beware that there is no lazy loading here, as it iterates over the results, but it shouldn't be a problem, unless you want to add more constructs to you query or retrieve some associated objects(which should not be the case as you haven't got the ids for loading the associated objects).