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Asked: 2026-06-18T20:16:38+00:00

Based on a table employees , I created a view in my MySQL database

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Based on a table employees, I created a view in my MySQL database called Employees_by_gender:

select count(gender_id) AS "Number of Employees",gender_id AS "Gender" from employees group by gender_id;

mysql> select * from Employee_by_gender;
+--------+---------------------+
| Gender | Number of Employees |
+--------+---------------------+
|      1 |                3890 |
|      2 |                1087 |
+--------+---------------------+

How do I render the output of this database view in a client side table? I’ve been using “dataTables bootstrap rails” for all my normal tables rendering.

Screenshot of table

How can I get this data in a table-like display?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure on the specifics of dataTables, but you can create an ActiveRecord model for the view as if it were a normal (read-only) table:

    class EmployeesByGender < ActiveRecord::Base
  self.table_name 'Employees_by_gender'
end

    However, you are going to have a very hard time unless you rename your view column names to not contain spaces.

    If you must keep the spaces in the column names, follow the advise here:

    https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.lang.ruby/SNZNQu_h92w

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