CounterOne

Work in progress, not ready for production

Improved counter cache for Rails app with support various relationships and conditions.

Features

• Updates the counter cache for create, destroy, and update actions, as well as any single action
• Counter caches for multi levels and has_one/has_many through relations
• Conditions for counter caches
• Recalculating counter caches with conditions

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'counter_one'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install counter_one

Usage

Counter cache for simple relation

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :products
end

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  counter_one :user
end

It will be keep up to date products_count for users when product is created or destroyed.

Counter cache for multi levels relation

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :products
end

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
end

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :product
  counter_one [:product, :user]
end

It will be keep up to date comments_count for users when comment is created or destroyed.

Counter cache for has_one through relation

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :products
end

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
end

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :product
  has_one :user, through: :product

  counter_one :user
end

Counter cache with custom counter field

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :products
end

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  counter_one :user, column: :custom_counter
end

Counter cache with conditions

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :products
end

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  counter_one :user, column: :active_products, only: ->(product) { product.active? }
end

Counter cache only for deleted records

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :products
end

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  counter_one :user, column: :deleted_products, on: [:destroy]
end

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.