Question

For the sake of simplifying my problem, let’s say we have three models; user, flight, and plane. I want to show a table to the user of how many times they have flown each plane they’ve flown.

I am completely stuck as to how to achieve this… the most simple solution I could think of is to loop through the flights like so…

flown_planes = {}

@user.flights.each do |f|
  if flown_planes[f.plane.id]
    flown_planes[f.plane.id] += 1
  else
    flown_planes[f.plane.id] = 1
  end
end

Can I somehow use .find and .count to achieve this? I’m sure there is a much cleaner way than above. Please see the relationships below.

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Flight

class Flight < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :plane
end

Plane

class Plane < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :flights
end

User

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :flights
end

Answer 1

Use group_by to group the flights of the user by the planes!

@user.flights.group_by(&:plane_id)

That should do it for you,…

// For iteration…

@user.flights.group_by(&:plane_id).each do |plane_id, flights|
     plane = Plane.find(plane_id) # gives you the plain object so you can fetch the plane name/identification,... whatever you need
     flights.count # gives you count of flights in the plane
     flights.each do |flight|
          # do anything if you want with each of the flights the user had...
     end
end