Steven Soroka

For such a special case, just override what production means like Pavel suggested.

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Since Arel's job is essentially to generate the sql you need, and the sql you are trying to generate is not valid, it doesn't make sense to expect arel to magic...

I have some time, I'll take another look at this. I think you'd be fine to use the patch as long as you have transaction support in the database.

I don't think .try().try().try().try() is attractive, and it's definitely not DRY.

Much easier to edit and maintain a block around the code than .try sprinkled ...

david dollar and I have been working on the (merb inspired?) dependencies gem. I'm using it in a large project and it's been working really well for me. http://...

I had:

  default_scope :conditions => ['available != ?', 1]

and this fixed the problem; however, I don't think default_scope should be assuming it can use ...

@Guillermo: that's a horrible "solution", and a waste of resources (fetches all records and instantiates all rows as AR objects, just to check if there's any). ...

Okay, I applied this patch in my app, (Rails 2.3.2) as such:

module CountFix
  def self.included(base)
    base.class_eval do
      extend ClassMethods
 ...

gah. I found a problem with this. If the method is there and it calls something else that raises a NoMethodError, the method_missing here makes it seem as if it...