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Igor Alexandrov for JetRockets

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Rails: increment counter cache and return value

What will you do if you have to in/decrement counter cache column and get it actual value via single query?. Learn how to hack ActiveRecord to do this in easy and pretty cool way.

http://jetrockets.pro/blog/rails-increment-counter-cache-and-return-value

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Dmitry Salahutdinov

Hi Igor, do you consider to create simple gem and make the common patch ?

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Igor Alexandrov
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Igor Alexandrov

I will update description and add specs later.

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Igor Alexandrov

Sure, give me a couple of days.