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  • kmitov 7:36 pm on February 15, 2021 Permalink |
    Tags: active record, , ,   

    Usage of ActiveRecord::Relation#missing/associated 

    Today I learned that Rails 6.1 adds query method associated to check for the association presence. Good to know. I share it with the team at Axlessoft along with the community as a whole.

    While reading the article about the methods I thought:

    Are we going to use these methods in our code base?

    I did some greps and it turns out we won’t.

    $ git grep -A 10 joins | grep where.not | grep nil | wc -l
    0
    

    There is not a single place in our code that we call

    .joins(:association).where.not(association: {id: nil}
    
    or
    
    .joins(:association).where(association: {id: nil})

    What does this mean?

    Nothing actually. Great methods. I was just curious to see if we will be using them in our code base a lot.

     
  • kmitov 5:30 pm on January 27, 2021 Permalink |
    Tags: active record, ,   

    What is the most complex query that you are comfortable to live with before refactoring? 

    (Everyday Code – instead of keeping our knowledge in a README.md let’s share it with the internet)

    Today I did some refactoring and I again worked with a query that I kind of never got to refactor and it is the most “complex” query that we seem to be comfortable with in our platforms because other queries are improved, but this one stays the same. This does not mean that it is not understandable or not maintainable, it is just the most “complex” we seem to be comfortable with, because any more complex than this and we naturally think about refactoring it.

    This got me thinking.

    What are other real life examples for the most complex relation database queries others are comfortable enough to live with before thinking about changing the model or the scheme.

    Is my threshold too low or too high?

    I would be happy to learn more from you.

    Here is the query (Active Record) in question:

    Get all the references for 'Tasks' that are in CourseSections that are in Courses
    and filter all of them through the translations they have
    
    These are 8 tables (ContentRef, Task, CourseSection, Course, and 4 translation tables)

    # Get all the references for 'Tasks' that are in CourseSections that are in Courses 
    # and filter all of them through the translations they have
    # 
    # These are 8 tables (ContentRef, Task, CourseSection, Course, and 4 translation tables) 
    ContentRef.
      joins(:course_section). 
      includes(:translations).
      includes(:task)
      includes(task:[:translations]).
      includes(course_section: [course: [:translations]]).
      includes(course_section:[:translations]).
      where(courses:{id: course_ids }, content_type: "Task").
      select("content_refs.*, course_translations.*, course_section_translations.*, task_translations.*")
    
    # The models is
    Content Ref 
      belongs_to CourseSection
      belongs_to Task
      has_many :translations
    
    CourseSection
      belongs_to Course
      has_many :translations
    
    Course 
      has_many :translation
    
    Task 
      has_many :translation
    
     
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