I want to query on a Hash field for a Mongoid Class. I'm not sure how I can do this with conditions?
Here is an example:
class Person
include Mongoid::Document
field :things, :type => Hash
end
So, let's say that I have this:
p = Person.new
p.things = {}
p.things[:tv] = "Samsung"
I want to query for the first person with a tv that is a Samsung...
People.first(:conditions => ?????
Thanks in advance.
Person.where('things.tv' => 'Samsung').first
This is where Mongoid and MongoDB really shine. Mongoid's Criteria methods (Person.where, Person.any_of, Person.excludes, etc.) will give you much more flexibility than the ActiveRecord-style finders (passing a :conditions hash to Person.find, Person.first, etc.)
Mongoid's site has some great documentation on how to use Criteria:
http://mongoid.org/en/mongoid/docs/querying.html
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I am using Ruby v1.8 and Rails v2.3.
I have a two model objects: Cars and Customers,
Model Cars:
class car < ActiveRecord::Base
#car has attribute :town_code
has_many :customers
end
Model Customers:
class customer < ActiveRecord::Base
# customer has attribute :first_name, :last_name
belongs_to :car
end
Now in my controller, I got a string from VIEW, and the received string has the format firstname.lastname#town_code, for example a string like "John.smith#ac01" which can be parsed as first_name="John", last_name="smith" and town_code="ac01"
Now I would like use the Rails's way to query the database to find all the customer objects (match the above conditions) from Customers table which has :
first_name="John",
last_name="smith"
and owned a car(by car_id) with car's town_code="ac01".
what is Rails' syntax to query this?
I know it should be something like (if I wanna count the nr of matched customer):
Customer.count :consitions =>{:first_name => "John", :last_name=>"smith"...}
But, I am not sure how to refer to a customer that has a referenced car with car's town_code= "ac01" ?
------------------ My question --------------------
I want to have two queries:
-one is used to count the number of matching customers,
-the other query returns the customers objects like find_by_ query.
What is the syntax in Ruby on Rails for the two queries?
It should be something similar to
Customer.where(:firstname => "John", :last_name => "Smith").count
If you have many Customers of Car, you can do something like
Car.where(...).customers.where(...)
You should really be firing rails c to test your queries in (I might be slightly off)
You could have something like:
#customers = car.where(:town_code => town_code).customers.where(:first_name => first_name, :last_name => last_name)
And then just count the results:
#customer_count = #customers.count
This assuming you parsed your string into the variables town_code, first_name, and last_name, like you said.
Edit
I don't think Rails v2.3 supports these chains of Active Record queries because I believe it lacks lazy loading from DB. I'm not completely sure. Also, I realize my first suggestion would't work because there could be many cars with the same town_code. I guess you could solve it using the map function like so (not tested):
#customers = car.all(:conditions => {:town_code => town_code}).map{ |c| c.customers.where(:first_name => first_name, :last_name => last_name) }
And then count them like before:
#customer_count = #customers.count
I believe you could do something like this: source
Customer.find(:all, :include => :car, :conditions => "customers.first_name = 'John' AND customers.last_name = 'Smith' AND cars.town_code = 'ac01'")
Counting all customers with a specification can be achieved by this command: source
Customer.count(:all, :include => :car, :conditions => "customers.first_name = 'John' AND customers.last_name = 'Smith' AND cars.town_code = 'ac01'")
By the way, if you are in the position to choose what you work with, I would advise you to go for Rails 3. The chaining methods described by Joseph would make this kind of query a lot easier and it'll save you upgrading issues down the road. (And you tagged the question for Rails 3)
I am using rails 3 with mongoid.
I have a collection of Stocks with an embedded collection of Prices :
class Stock
include Mongoid::Document
field :name, :type => String
field :code, :type => Integer
embeds_many :prices
class Price
include Mongoid::Document
field :date, :type => DateTime
field :value, :type => Float
embedded_in :stock, :inverse_of => :prices
I would like to get the stocks whose the minimum price since a given date is lower than a given price p, and then be able to sort the prices for each stock.
But it looks like Mongodb does not allow to do it.
Because this will not work:
#stocks = Stock.Where(:prices.value.lt => p)
Also, it seems that mongoDB can not sort embedded objects.
So, is there an alternative in order to accomplish this task ?
Maybe i should put everything in one collection so that i could easily run the following query:
#stocks = Stock.Where(:prices.lt => p)
But i really want to get results grouped by stock names after my query (distinct stocks with an array of ordered prices for example). I have heard about map/reduce with the group function but i am not sure how to use it correctly with Mongoid.
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Aggregation
The equivalent in SQL would be something like this:
SELECT name, code, min(price) from Stock WHERE price<p GROUP BY name, code
Thanks for your help.
MongoDB / Mongoid do allow you to do this. Your example will work, the syntax is just incorrect.
#stocks = Stock.Where(:prices.value.lt => p) #does not work
#stocks = Stock.where('prices.value' => {'$lt' => p}) #this should work
And, it's still chainable so you can order by name as well:
#stocks = Stock.where('prices.value' => {'$lt' => p}).asc(:name)
Hope this helps.
I've had a similar problem... here's what I suggest:
scope :price_min, lambda { |price_min| price_min.nil? ? {} : where("price.value" => { '$lte' => price_min.to_f }) }
Place this scope in the parent model. This will enable you to make queries like:
Stock.price_min(1000).count
Note that my scope only works when you actually insert some data there. This is very handy if you're building complex queries with Mongoid.
Good luck!
Very best,
Ruy
MongoDB does allow querying of embedded documents, http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Advanced+Queries#AdvancedQueries-ValueinanEmbeddedObject
What you're missing is a scope on the Price model, something like this:
scope :greater_than, lambda {|value| { :where => {:value.gt => value} } }
This will let you pass in any value you want and return a Mongoid collection of prices with the value greater than what you passed in. It'll be an unsorted collection, so you'll have to sort it in Ruby.
prices.sort {|a,b| a.value <=> b.value}.each {|price| puts price.value}
Mongoid does have a map_reduce method to which you pass two string variables containing the Javascript functions to execute map/reduce, and this would probably be the best way of doing what you need, but the code above will work for now.
I'm looking for a way to store a serialized value of eg. IDs in a column. In before claims that this is not an optimal design: the column is used for IDs of associated records, but will only be used when displaying the record - so no queries are made with selection on the column and no joins will be made on this column either.
In Rails I can serialize the column by using:
class Activity
serialize :data
end
This encodes the column as YAML. For legacy sake and since I'm only storing one dimensional arrays containing only integers, I find it more suitable to store it as a comma-separated value.
I've successfully implemented basic accessors like this:
def data=(ids)
ids = ids.join(",") if ids.is_a?(Array)
write_attribute(:data, ids)
end
def data
(read_attribute(:data) || "").split(",")
end
This works pretty fine. However I'd like to add array-like methods to this attribute:
activity = Activity.first
activity.data << 42
...
How would I do this?
You can do it with composed_of feature as explained in this post.
It should be something like:
composed_of :data, :class_name => 'Array', :mapping => %w(data to_csv),
:constructor => Proc.new {|column| column.to_csv},
:converter => Proc.new {|column| column.to_csv}
after_validation do |u|
u.data = u.data if u.data.dirty? # Force to serialize
end
Haven't tested it though.
You can use serialize with a custom coder in rails 3.1.
See my answer to this question. :-)
I have several similar models ContactEmail, ContactLetter, etcetera.
Each one belongs_to a Contact
Each contact belongs_to a Company
So, what I did was create a virtual attribute for ContactEmail:
def company_name
contact = Contact.find_by_id(self.contact_id)
return contact.company_name
end
Question: How can I get an easy list of all company_name (without duplicates) if I have a set of ContactEmails objects (from a find(:all) method, for example)?
When I try to do a search on ContactEmail.company_name using the statistics gem, for example, I get an error saying that company_name is not a column for ContactEmail.
Assuming your ContactEmail set is in #contact_emails (untested):
#contact_emails.collect { |contact_email| contact_email.company_name }.uniq
You don't need the virtual attribute for this purpose though. ActiveRecord sets up the relationship automatically based on the foreign key, so you could take the company_name method out of the ContactEmail model and do:
#contact_emails.collect { |contact_email| contact_email.contact.company_name }.uniq
Performance could be a consideration for large sets, so you might need to use a more sophisticated SQL query if that's an issue.
EDIT to answer your 2nd question
If company_name is a column, you can do:
ContactEmail.count(:all, :joins => :contact, :group => 'contact.company_name')
On a virtual attribute I think you'd have to retrieve the whole set and use Ruby (untested):
ContactEmail.find(:all, :joins => :contact, :select => 'contacts.company_name').group_by(&:company_name).inject({}) {|hash,result_set| hash.merge(result_set.first=>result_set.last.count)}
but that's not very kind to the next person assigned to maintain your system -- so you're better off working out the query syntax for the .count version and referring to the column itself.
Having trouble with AR 2.3.5, e.g.:
users = User.all( :select => "u.id, c.user_id", :from => "users u, connections c",
:conditions => ... )
Returns, e.g.:
=> [#<User id: 1000>]
>> users.first.attributes
=> {"id"=>1000, "user_id"=>"1000"}
Note that AR returns the id of the model searched as numeric but the selected user_id of the joined model as a String, although both are int(11) in the database schema.
How could I better form this type of query to select columns of tables backing multiple models and retrieving their natural type rather than String ? Seems like AR is punting on this somewhere. How could I coerce the returned types at AR load time and not have to tack .to_i (etc.) onto every post-hoc access?
It's unfortunately not going to happen very easily. All of the data from the DB connection comes to rails as strings, the conversion of types happens in each of the dynamic attribute methods that rails creates at runtime. It knows which attributes to convert to which type by the table's column-type meta-data that it retrieves when the app starts. Each model only has column meta-data for it's own columns, that's why it's own columns end up with correct type. There is no easy way to auto-convert to the correct types.
You could on the other hand, create a simple conversion method that would take a Hash and automatically convert the attributes.
Something like this:
users = User.all(:select => "cl, comments.c2", ...)
users = convert_columns(users, 'c2' => :integer, 'other_column' => :date)
def convert_columns(records, columns = {})
records.each do |rec|
columns.each do |col, type|
rec[col] = case type
when :int then rec[col].to_i
when :date then ........
....
end
end
end
end
Why are you using :from => "users" inside a User.method ?
The following will do an inner join (which is what you are doing anyways)
users = User.all(:include => :connections, :select => "users.id, connections.user_id", :conditions => {...})
This is going to be very heavy query for the database.
Faster query would be with the outer join though.
This will also return the keys as INT not STRING
A much faster alternative was
Connection.all(:include => :user, :conditions => {...}).collect {|e| [e.user_id, e.id] }
This gives you an array of arrays with the ids. If you are going to select "id, user_id" columns only, then it may not necessarily be as AR object. An array can be faster.
I hope I am not missing some point here. Suggest me, if I am.
If you want quick solution - try to use after_find callback and preset correct attributes types there:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
after_find :preset_types
private
def preset_types user
user.user_id = user.user_id.to_i
end
end