Rails Way of Grouping By an Association - ruby-on-rails

Question

I know I am making this more difficult than it needs to be. There has to be a rails way of accomplishing this task. To demonstrate: here are two models:
#app/models/user.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :blogs
def to_s
name
end
end
#app/models/blog.rb
class Blog < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
delegate :name, to: :user, prefix: true, allow_nil: true
def to_s
title
end
end
So what I want to do is group all of the blogs by the associated user. Then I want to list those blogs per each user.
Key Detail: not all blogs have an associated user. Some have user_id = nil. Here is a listing of the blogs to demonstrate (last two blogs have user_id = nil):
So I got what I wanted to work. But the solution is not easy to read, and I know there must be some way to accomplish this using Rails' query interface. I couldn't figure it out though, so I hacked together my own solution below:
#app/controllers/admin_controller.rb
class AdminController < ApplicationController
def index
#group_blogs_by_user = {}
User.all.pluck(:name).each{|user| #group_blogs_by_user[user] = []}
#group_blogs_by_user[nil] = [] #provide nil category when no user_id was specified for a blog
Blog.all.each {|blog| #group_blogs_by_user[blog.user_name].push(blog)}
#group_blogs_by_user.reject!{ |_ , v|v.empty?} #do not show users that have no blogs
end
end
And here is the view to display it:
#app/views/admin/index.html.erb
<h1>Showing Count of Blogs per User</h1>
<table>
<thead>
<th>User</th>
<th>Blogs Count</th>
</thead>
<tbody>
<% #group_blogs_by_user.each do |user, blogs_of_this_user| %>
<tr>
<td><%= user || "No User Specified"%></td>
<td><%= blogs_of_this_user.size %></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
</tbody>
</table>
<hr>
<h1>Showing Breakdown of Blogs per User</h1>
<% #group_blogs_by_user.each do |user, blogs_of_this_user| %>
<h3><%= (user || "No User Specified") + " (#{blogs_of_this_user.size} blogs)" %></h3>
<table class="table">
<thead>
<th>Blog ID</th>
<th>Created At</th>
</thead>
<tbody>
<% blogs_of_this_user.each do |blog| %>
<tr>
<td> <%= link_to(blog.id, blog)%></td>
<td> <%= blog.created_at.strftime("%d-%m-%Y")%></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
</tbody>
</table>
<% end %>
And here is what it renders, which is what I want:
I run into this situation all the time where I want to group a table by some association, and I find myself continually hacking together a solution. How can I do this the rails way with Rails' Query Interface?

Answer 1

To get all the blogs from a user and print the username, blog_id and blog count
<% #users.each do |user| %>
<%= user.name %>
<%= user.blogs.count %>
<% user.blogs.each do |blog|%>
<%= blog.id %>
<% end %>
<% end %>
To get the amount of blogs with no user
<%= Blog.where(user: nil).count %>
I hope I got your question right and this helps!