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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_through_association.rb')
-rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_through_association.rb | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_through_association.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_through_association.rb index ebe1be04e5..ec093548da 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_through_association.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_through_association.rb @@ -96,6 +96,13 @@ module ActiveRecord end end + # Returns the size of the collection by executing a SELECT COUNT(*) query if the collection hasn't been loaded and + # calling collection.size if it has. If it's more likely than not that the collection does have a size larger than zero + # and you need to fetch that collection afterwards, it'll take one less SELECT query if you use length. + def size + loaded? ? @target.size : count + end + # Calculate sum using SQL, not Enumerable def sum(*args, &block) calculate(:sum, *args, &block) |