http://blog.pauldalton.co.uk/articles/2005/09/28/how-to-count-the-number-of-records-in-a-table en-us 40 random mumblings <p>Want to find out how many records there are in a table?</p> <p>You could do a table.<code>&lt;a href="http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M000674"&gt;find_by_sql &lt;/a&gt; "select count(*) from table",</code></p> <p>You could get all the records from the table and then count them, say <code>records = table.find(:all)</code>.</p> <p><strong>Or</strong> you could do count = <a href="http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M000683">table.count</a>.</p> <p>How cool is that!</p> Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:30:55 +0100 urn:uuid:dacd6302f24dbeb25eb2fb22ff576ea8 paul http://blog.pauldalton.co.uk/articles/2005/09/28/how-to-count-the-number-of-records-in-a-table General Rails