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How to find Books that belong to desired Categories with Rails?
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# The logic here is dishonestly stolen from Gutentag gem: | |
# https://github.com/pat/gutentag/blob/0dbcd1dbcd4de8930e589cf964498abe46127a98/lib/gutentag/tagged_with/query.rb#L11 | |
# Models definitions | |
class Book < ApplicationRecord | |
has_many :category_mappings, as: :categorizable, dependent: :destroy | |
has_many :categories, through: :category_mappings | |
end | |
class CategoryMapping < ApplicationRecord | |
belongs_to :category | |
belongs_to :categorizable, polymorphic: true | |
end | |
class Category < ApplicationRecord | |
has_many :category_mappings, dependent: :restrict_with_error | |
end | |
# Let's assume we want to find books that belong to all categories below, | |
# i.e. every book belongs to "Detective" AND "Fiction" categories. | |
searched_categories = %w[Detective Fiction] | |
# The most important part where magic happens. | |
sub_query = | |
CategoryMapping | |
.joins(:category) | |
.select(:categorizable_id) | |
.where(categorizable_type: Book.base_class.name) | |
.where(Category.table_name => { name: searched_categories }) | |
.group(:categorizable_id) | |
.having("COUNT(*) = #{searched_categories.size}") | |
.to_sql | |
books_table_id = "#{Book.quoted_table_name}.#{Book.quoted_primary_key}" | |
# Resulting query that returns desired Books | |
Book.where("#{books_table_id} IN (#{sub_query})") |
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