Performance-Count.md

Pattern: Missing use of count

Issue: -

Description

This rule is used to identify usages of count on an Enumerable that follow calls to select or reject. Querying logic can instead be passed to the count call.

ActiveRecord compatibility: ActiveRecord will ignore the block that is passed to count. Other methods, such as select, will convert the association to an array and then run the block on the array. A simple work around to make count work with a block is to call to_a.count {...}.

Example: Model.where(id: [1, 2, 3].select { |m| m.method == true }.size

becomes:

Model.where(id: [1, 2, 3]).to_a.count { |m| m.method == true }

Examples

# bad
[1, 2, 3].select { |e| e > 2 }.size
[1, 2, 3].reject { |e| e > 2 }.size
[1, 2, 3].select { |e| e > 2 }.length
[1, 2, 3].reject { |e| e > 2 }.length
[1, 2, 3].select { |e| e > 2 }.count { |e| e.odd? }
[1, 2, 3].reject { |e| e > 2 }.count { |e| e.even? }
array.select(&:value).count

# good
[1, 2, 3].count { |e| e > 2 }
[1, 2, 3].count { |e| e < 2 }
[1, 2, 3].count { |e| e > 2 && e.odd? }
[1, 2, 3].count { |e| e < 2 && e.even? }
Model.select('field AS field_one').count
Model.select(:value).count

Default configuration

Attribute	Value
SafeMode	true

Further Reading

• RuboCop - Performance/Count