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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb')
| -rwxr-xr-x | activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb | 20 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb index 43879603e3..87bd064e49 100755 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb @@ -555,11 +555,21 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc: update_all(updates, "#{connection.quote_column_name(primary_key)} = #{quote_value(id)}") end - # Increments the specified counter by one. So <tt>DiscussionBoard.increment_counter("post_count", - # discussion_board_id)</tt> would increment the "post_count" counter on the board responding to discussion_board_id. - # This is used for caching aggregate values, so that they don't need to be computed every time. Especially important - # for looping over a collection where each element require a number of aggregate values. Like the DiscussionBoard - # that needs to list both the number of posts and comments. + # Increment a number field by one, usually representing a count. + # + # This is used for caching aggregate values, so that they don't need to be computed every time. + # For example, a DiscussionBoard may cache post_count and comment_count otherwise every time the board is + # shown it would have to run a SQL query to find how many posts and comments there are. + # + # ==== Options + # + # +counter_name+ The name of the field that should be incremented + # +id+ The id of the object that should be incremented + # + # ==== Examples + # + # # Increment the post_count column for the record with an id of 5 + # DiscussionBoard.increment_counter(:post_count, 5) def increment_counter(counter_name, id) update_counters(id, counter_name => 1) end |