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Author could use counter cache to solve the problem.



Author here. That would work for a count (so perhaps that was a poor example to choose for this post) but we also use calculated_attributes for many more complex cases (for example, querying the earliest date in 3 columns across 3 tables).


There is a gem called eager_group that you might find useful.




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