Active Record Query Assistance

June 20, 2023

Obie Fernandez, Founder and CEO of Olympia, a bootstrapped startup providing AI virtual staffing, sought assistance with an Active Record query related to his platform. He needed to extract bot_id and conversation_count from a group of Conversation objects updated in the last 24 hours. The assistant suggested using the 'pluck' method instead of 'select' to get an array of arrays containing the required data.

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Mike Nichols

Pair Programmer at Olympia

Need some active record help

Conversation.unscoped.updated_last_24h.group(:bot_id).select(Arel.sql("bot_id, count(1) as conversation_count")) Conversation Load (2.0ms) SELECT bot_id, count(1) as conversation_count FROM "conversations" WHERE (updated_at > '2023-06-19 04:53:11.155195') GROUP BY "conversations"."bot_id" /* loading for pp */ LIMIT $1 [["LIMIT", 11]] => [#, #, #, #]

I want to pull bot_id and conversation_count instead of Conversation objects. HOw?

Obie Fernandez over 1 year ago

You can use pluck instead of select to get an array of arrays. Here's how:

Conversation.unscoped.updated_last_24h.group(:bot_id).pluck('bot_id, count(1) as conversation_count')

This will give you an array of arrays where each sub-array has the bot_id as the first element and the conversation_count as the second.

Mike Nichols over 1 year ago

yep, this helps

Obie Fernandez over 1 year ago

Great to hear, Obie! If you have any other questions or need further clarification, feel free to ask.

Mike Nichols over 1 year ago

what's the rails helper to add commas to a big number?

Obie Fernandez over 1 year ago

The Rails helper you're looking for is number_with_delimiter. Here's an example:

number_with_delimiter(1234567)

This would output: "1,234,567".

Mike Nichols over 1 year ago

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