Question

OK, the title is not that good…

Here is the example :

class Product
  has_and_belongs_to_many :categories
end

I want to create a scope that returns Products that have ALL the categories IDs I’ve sent as argument.

If I use Product.includes(:categories).where(:”categories.categorie_id” => [1,2,3,4]) it gives me all Products that have any of categories 1, 2, 3, 4.
I would like Products which have at least all the categories I send as parameter.

For example :

Product.with_all_categories([1, 2, 3, 4]) # => get all the Product that have categories 1, 2, 3 AND 4 (at least, it could be more).

Answer 1

I guess you won’t like the answer : this is not easy.

AFAIK, it’s not something you can do in AR directly. You have to go through find_by_sql. The request you need is something like :

SELECT products.* FROM products
INNER JOIN categories_products cat1 ON products.id = 
cat1.product_id
INNER JOIN categories_products cat2 ON products.id = 
cat2.product_id
INNER JOIN categories_products cat3 ON products.id = 
cat3.product_id
WHERE (cat1.category_id = 1) and (cat3.category_id = 2) and (cat3.category_id = 3)

adding an inner join and one and clause for every category.
There is other queries possibles, this one should perform well in MySQL.