Question

Im working on Rails 3.0.5 and PostgreSQL.

I have a model Offer, that has many Products.

class Offer < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many  :products
end

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :offer
end

The product has an id that updates when you register it in a third party service. Lets call it service_id. I want an Offer scope, that gets all the offers that have every single product registered in the third party service. In other words, I’m only interested in the offer instance if all of its products have a service id.

The offer scope: joins(:products).where("products.service_id is not NULL"), just returns the offers that have at least one product that is not null.

Any help would be appreciated.

(PS: Sorry for the title, I tried to explain it the best I could.)

EDIT:

For example: If I have 2 offers: Offer1 and Offer2. Offer1 has products p1 and p2, and Offer2 has products p3 and p4. Let’s say p1, p2 and p3 have a service but p4 doesn’t. The query should return only Offer1.

Answer 1

This is another approach.

Offer.find_by_sql("SELECT * FROM offers o WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM products WHERE products.offer_id = o.id AND service_id IS NULL)")

Even do the idea of an ORM is that you abstract the SQL, in this kind of complex query, I think it is better to pick the simplest solution and not complicate the query even more.