Rails .joins query over multiple associations - sql

I have this query that works as expected:
#dog.listings.joins(:address_country).merge(Country.where(permalink: 'uk'))
This query gives me the Listings where the country matches 'uk' (Listing has_one :address_country, which is a country from the Country model)
But when I add another association to the chain in between cat and listing (litter), it doesn't work (a litter belongs to a listing, as well as to a cat):
#dog.litters.joins(:listing) & Listing.joins(:address_country) & Country.where(permalink: 'uk')
In this query I'd like it to fetch the Litters where the country (of the associated listing) matches. But it just returns an empty array. The first query works, and I guess I just need to bolt that on to #cat.litters?)
In Rails C, I'm getting this:
d.litters.joins(:listing) & Listing.joins(:address_country).merge(Country.where(permalink: 'uk'))
Litter Load (0.6ms) SELECT "litters".* FROM "litters" INNER JOIN "listings" ON "listings"."id" = "litters"."listing_id" WHERE "litters"."litterable_id" = 11 AND "litters"."litterable_type" = 'Dog'
Listing Load (0.4ms) SELECT "listings".* FROM "listings" INNER JOIN "countries" ON "countries"."id" = "listings"."address_country_id" WHERE "countries"."permalink" = 'uk'
=> []
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

One thing that's definitely wrong is to assume that & is the same as merge. It used to be but was removed in fbd917 - now it's just ruby's array intersection and that's not what you want.
I am not sure I follow the database schema from the brief description you gave but just rewriting it to merge is worth the shot:
#dog.litters.joins(:listing).merge(Listing.joins(:address_country)).merge(Country.where(permalink: 'uk'))
and again without actually running the code I would guess that this is equivalent:
#dog.litters.joins(listing: :address_country).where(countries: {permalink: "uk"})

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How to connect ransacker query to ransack sort search parameter

Problem:
I am using the ransack gem to sort columns in a table. I have 2 models: Campaign and Course. A campaign has many courses, and a course belongs to one campaign. Each course has a number of total_attendees. My Campaigns table has a column for Total Attendees, and I want it to be sortable. So it would sum up the total_attendees field for each course that belongs to a single campaign, and sort based on that sum.
Ex. A campaign has 3 courses, each with 10 attendees. The Total Attendees column on the campaign table would show 30 and it would be sortable against total attendees for all the other campaigns.
I found ransackers:
https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack/wiki/Using-Ransackers
and this SO question: Ransack sort by sum of relation
and from that put together a lot of what is below.
From Model - campaign.rb:
class Campaign < ApplicationRecord
has_many :courses
ransacker :sum_of_total_attendees do
query = "SELECT SUM(r.total_attendees)
FROM campaigns c
LEFT OUTER JOIN courses r
ON r.campaign_id = c.id
GROUP BY c.id"
Arel.sql(query)
end
end
From Model - course.rb:
class Course < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :campaign, optional: true
end
View:
<th scope="col"><%= sort_link(#q, :sum_of_total_attendees, 'Total Attendees') %></th>
Controller - campaigns_controller.rb:
all_campaigns = Campaign.all
#q = all_campaigns.ransack(params[:q])
#campaigns = #q.result
Errors:
The ransacker query gives me the data I want, but I don't know what to do to get the right information .
Originally, when I clicked on the th link to sort the data, I got this error:
PG::CardinalityViolation: ERROR: more than one row returned by a
subquery used as an expression
I don't know what changed, but now I'm getting this error:
PG::SyntaxError: ERROR: syntax error at or near "SELECT"
LINE 1: SELECT "campaigns".* FROM "campaigns" ORDER BY SELECT SUM(r....
^
: SELECT "campaigns".* FROM "campaigns" ORDER BY SELECT
SUM(r.total_attendees)
FROM campaigns c
LEFT OUTER JOIN courses r
ON r.campaign_id = c.id
GROUP BY c.id ASC
This error seems to say that the ransack search parameter, #q and the ransacker query don't work together. There are two selects in this request, when there should definitely be only one, but the first one is coming from ransack, so I'm not sure how to address it.
How do I get my query to sort correctly with ransack?
Articles I've looked at but did not seem to apply to what I was looking to accomplish with this story:
Ransack Sort By Sum of Relation: This is the one I worked from a lot, but I'm not sure why it works for this user and not for me. They don't show what is changed, if anything, in the controller
Ransack Github Issue For Multiple Params: This doesn't cover the issue of summing table columns.
Rails Ransack Sorting Searching Based On A Definition In The Model: This didn't apply to my need to sort based on summed data.
Three Ways to Bend The Ransack Gem: This looks like what I was doing, but I'm not sure why theirs is working but mine isn't.

Ransack no implicit conversion of Ransack::Search into Array

I am currently implementing Ransack for searching functionality.
I have a model Campaigns which collaborates campaigns that the user directly created as well as others so long as the user belongs to the same vendor.
I can combine the results as such:
#search = current_user.campaigns + current_user.vendor.campaigns.where.not(:user_id => current_user.id)
Problem with this is that Ransack will not accept this combination and spits out
no implicit conversion of Ransack::Search into Array
Can someone point me in the direction on how to refactor this code?
TIA
Adding Addition Data
When looking at my console I can see *current_user.campaigns*:
Campaign Load (0.3ms)
SELECT DISTINCT "campaigns".* FROM "campaigns"
WHERE "campaigns"."user_id" = ? [["user_id", 2]]
Running *current_user.vendor.campaigns* give me:
Campaign Load (0.4ms)
SELECT DISTINCT "campaigns".* FROM "campaigns"
INNER JOIN "weeks" ON "campaigns"."id" = "weeks"."campaign_id"
INNER JOIN "products" ON "weeks"."product_id" = "products"."id"
INNER JOIN "locations" ON "products"."location_id" = "locations"."id"
WHERE "locations"."vendor_id" = ? [["vendor_id", 2]]
I can get the first filter of current_user achieved with:
#search = Campaign.where("campaigns.user_id" => current_user.id).search(params[:q])
But I am lost of how I go about building the rest of the join tables to include both elements of data
Solved
#search = Campaign.includes(:weeks).where('(campaigns.user_id LIKE ?) OR (weeks.vendor_id LIKE ?)', current_user.id, current_user.vendor.id).search(params[:q])

Rails ActiveRecord Join Query With conditions

I have following SQL Query:
SELECT campaigns.* , campaign_countries.points, offers.image
FROM campaigns
JOIN campaign_countries ON campaigns.id = campaign_countries.campaign_id
JOIN countries ON campaign_countries.country_id = countries.id
JOIN offers ON campaigns.offer_id = offers.id
WHERE countries.code = 'US'
This works perfectly well. I want its rails active record version some thing like:
Campaign.includes(campaign_countries: :country).where(countries: {code: "US"})
Above code runs more or less correct query (did not try to include offers table), issue is returned result is collection of Campaign objects so obviously it does not include Points
My tables are:
campaigns --HAS_MANY--< campaign_countries --BELONGS_TO--< countries
campaigns --BELONGS_TO--> offers
Any suggestions to write AR version of this SQL? I don't want to use SQL statement in my code.
I some how got this working without SQL but surely its poor man's solution:
in my controller I have:
campaigns = Campaign.includes(campaign_countries: :country).where(countries: {code: country.to_s})
render :json => campaigns.to_json(:country => country)
in campaign model:
def points_for_country country
CampaignCountry.joins(:campaign, :country).where(countries: {code: country}, campaigns: {id: self.id}).first
end
def as_json options={}
json = {
id: id,
cid: cid,
name: name,
offer: offer,
points_details: options[:country] ? points_for_country(options[:country]) : ""
}
end
and in campaign_countries model:
def as_json options={}
json = {
face_value: face_value,
actual_value: actual_value,
points: points
}
end
Why this is not good solution? because it invokes too many queries:
1. It invokes query when first join is performed to get list of campaigns specific to country
2. For each campaign found in first query it will invoke one more query on campaign_countries table to get Points for that campaign and country.
This is bad, Bad and BAD solution. Any suggestions to improve this?
If You have campaign, You can use campaign.campaign_countries to get associated campaign_countries and just get points from them.
> campaign.campaign_countries.map(&:points)
=> [1,2,3,4,5]
Similarly You will be able to get image from offers relation.
EDIT:
Ok, I guess now I know what's going on. You can use joins with select to get object with attached fields from join tables.
cs = Campaign.joins(campaign_countries: :country).joins(:offers).select('campaigns.*, campaign_countries.points, offers.image').where(countries: {code: "US"})
You can than reference additional fields by their name on Campaign object
cs.first.points
cs.first.image
But be sure, that additional column names do not overlap with some primary table fields or object methods.
EDIT 2:
After some more research I came to conclusion that my first version was actually correct for this case. I will use my own console as example.
> u = User.includes(:orders => :cart).where(:carts => { :id => [5168, 5167] }).first
> u.orders.length # no query is performed
=> 2
> u.orders.count # count query is performed
=> 5
So when You use includes with condition on country, in campaign_countries are stored only campaign_countries that fulfill Your condition.
Try this:
Campaign.joins( [{ :campaign_countries => :countries}, :offers]).where('`countries`.`code` = ?', "US")

Ordering a found set by number of times a user has viewed the page

I'm trying to order a list of locations based on the number of times a user has viewed them. Am using the impressionist gem for the sake of it.
The problem I'm having is that my query completely excludes those locations the user's never viewed. I need to display these at the bottom of the results and order by the created_at timestamp.
I can do this to get a list of location_ids:
#location_ids = #user.impressions.
select('count(id) as counter, impressionable_id').
group(:impressionable_id).
order('counter DESC').
#location_ids.map(&:impressionable_id)
Which gives [3,5,8,44,99] and so on..
However, that doesn't get me far so I tried this:
#user.locations.
joins(:impressions).
select("count(impressions.id) as counter, impressionable_id, locations.location_name, locations.id").
group(:impressionable_id).
order("counter desc")
Which is better but it omits those locations with zero views.
How should I do this to get all the locations?
By default, Rails uses an inner join when you use .joins. That's why you don't see the locations with no associated impressions. You need to tell it to use a left join instead, probably like so:
#user.locations.
joins("left join impressions on impressions.impressionable_id = locations.id and impressions.impressionable_type = 'Location'").
select("count(impressions.id) as counter, impressionable_id, locations.location_name, locations.id").
group('locations.id').
order("counter desc")

Filtering model with HABTM relationship

I have 2 models - Restaurant and Feature. They are connected via has_and_belongs_to_many relationship. The gist of it is that you have restaurants with many features like delivery, pizza, sandwiches, salad bar, vegetarian option,… So now when the user wants to filter the restaurants and lets say he checks pizza and delivery, I want to display all the restaurants that have both features; pizza, delivery and maybe some more, but it HAS TO HAVE pizza AND delivery.
If I do a simple .where('features IN (?)', params[:features]) I (of course) get the restaurants that have either - so or pizza or delivery or both - which is not at all what I want.
My SQL/Rails knowledge is kinda limited since I'm new to this but I asked a friend and now I have this huuuge SQL that gets the job done:
Restaurant.find_by_sql(['SELECT restaurant_id FROM (
SELECT features_restaurants.*, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY restaurants.id ORDER BY features.id) AS rn FROM restaurants
JOIN features_restaurants ON restaurants.id = features_restaurants.restaurant_id
JOIN features ON features_restaurants.feature_id = features.id
WHERE features.id in (?)
) t
WHERE rn = ?', params[:features], params[:features].count])
So my question is: is there a better - more Rails even - way of doing this? How would you do it?
Oh BTW I'm using Rails 4 on Heroku so it's a Postgres DB.
This is an example of a set-iwthin-sets query. I advocate solving these with group by and having, because this provides a general framework.
Here is how this works in your case:
select fr.restaurant_id
from features_restaurants fr join
features f
on fr.feature_id = f.feature_id
group by fr.restaurant_id
having sum(case when f.feature_name = 'pizza' then 1 else 0 end) > 0 and
sum(case when f.feature_name = 'delivery' then 1 else 0 end) > 0
Each condition in the having clause is counting for the presence of one of the features -- "pizza" and "delivery". If both features are present, then you get the restaurant_id.
How much data is in your features table? Is it just a table of ids and names?
If so, and you're willing to do a little denormalization, you can do this much more easily by encoding the features as a text array on restaurant.
With this scheme your queries boil down to
select * from restaurants where restaurants.features #> ARRAY['pizza', 'delivery']
If you want to maintain your features table because it contains useful data, you can store the array of feature ids on the restaurant and do a query like this:
select * from restaurants where restaurants.feature_ids #> ARRAY[5, 17]
If you don't know the ids up front, and want it all in one query, you should be able to do something along these lines:
select * from restaurants where restaurants.feature_ids #> (
select id from features where name in ('pizza', 'delivery')
) as matched_features
That last query might need some more consideration...
Anyways, I've actually got a pretty detailed article written up about Tagging in Postgres and ActiveRecord if you want some more details.
This is not "copy and paste" solution but if you consider following steps you will have fast working query.
index feature_name column (I'm assuming that column feature_id is indexed on both tables)
place each feature_name param in exists():
select fr.restaurant_id
from
features_restaurants fr
where
exists(select true from features f where fr.feature_id = f.feature_id and f.feature_name = 'pizza')
and
exists(select true from features f where fr.feature_id = f.feature_id and f.feature_name = 'delivery')
group by
fr.restaurant_id
Maybe you're looking at it backwards?
Maybe try merging the restaurants returned by each feature.
Simplified:
pizza_restaurants = Feature.find_by_name('pizza').restaurants
delivery_restaurants = Feature.find_by_name('delivery').restaurants
pizza_delivery_restaurants = pizza_restaurants & delivery_restaurants
Obviously, this is a single instance solution. But it illustrates the idea.
UPDATE
Here's a dynamic method to pull in all filters without writing SQL (i.e. the "Railsy" way)
def get_restaurants_by_feature_names(features)
# accepts an array of feature names
restaurants = Restaurant.all
features.each do |f|
feature_restaurants = Feature.find_by_name(f).restaurants
restaurants = feature_restaurants & restaurants
end
return restaurants
end
Since its an AND condition (the OR conditions get dicey with AREL). I reread your stated problem and ignoring the SQL. I think this is what you want.
# in Restaurant
has_many :features
# in Feature
has_many :restaurants
# this is a contrived example. you may be doing something like
# where(name: 'pizza'). I'm just making this condition up. You
# could also make this more DRY by just passing in the name if
# that's what you're doing.
def self.pizza
where(pizza: true)
end
def self.delivery
where(delivery: true)
end
# query
Restaurant.features.pizza.delivery
Basically you call the association with ".features" and then you use the self methods defined on features. Hopefully I didn't misunderstand the original problem.
Cheers!
Restaurant
.joins(:features)
.where(features: {name: ['pizza','delivery']})
.group(:id)
.having('count(features.name) = ?', 2)
This seems to work for me. I tried it with SQLite though.