Question

I’m trying to count users who have dogs.

User.joins(:pets).where("pets.type = ?", :dog).count

This returns the count of the users + their dogs combined, instead i just want the count of actual users.

What am i doing wrong?

Update

I’ve also tried to just fetch the users using the above query and it returns an array of the same users repeated multiple times depending on how many dogs they have.

Answer 1

Try this:

User.joins(:pets).where("pets.type = ?", :dog).count(distinct: true)

See api doc.