Rails gets merge score through join table

Question

This question is an offshoot from the HABTM Associations in Rails: collecting and counting the categories of model children .

Given:

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_and_belongs_to_many :books
  validates_uniqueness_of :name
end

class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_and_belongs_to_many :categories
end

class Store < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :books
  has_many :categories, through: :books
end

Task:

In the store window, indicate the number of books for each category.

Store.first.books_per_category

desired result:

[ { name: 'mystery', count: 5 }, { name: 'fantasy', count: 6 } ]

However, each store can have a huge number of books and categories .

I am trying to create a single execution request that receives only a column of names and the number of books for each individual category associated with the Store, without loading the books into memory.

I have already tried:

class Store < ActiveRecord::Base

  # Will load each book into memory
  def books_per_category
    categories.eager_load(:books).map do |c|
      {
          name: c.name,
          count: c.books.size # Using size instead of count is important since count will always query the DB
      }
    end
  end

  # will query books count for each category.
  def books_per_category2
    categories.distinct.map do |c|
      {
          name: c.name,
          count: c.books.count
      }
    end
  end
end

Database Schema:

ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20150508184514) do

  create_table "books", force: true do |t|
    t.string   "title"
    t.datetime "created_at"
    t.datetime "updated_at"
    t.integer  "store_id"
  end

  add_index "books", ["store_id"], name: "index_books_on_store_id"

  create_table "books_categories", id: false, force: true do |t|
    t.integer "book_id",     null: false
    t.integer "category_id", null: false
  end

  add_index "books_categories", ["book_id", "category_id"], name: "index_books_categories_on_book_id_and_category_id"
  add_index "books_categories", ["category_id", "book_id"], name: "index_books_categories_on_category_id_and_book_id"

  create_table "categories", force: true do |t|
    t.string   "name"
    t.datetime "created_at"
    t.datetime "updated_at"
  end

  create_table "stores", force: true do |t|
    t.string   "name"
    t.datetime "created_at"
    t.datetime "updated_at"
  end
end

Answer 1

select group . books_per_category :

def books_per_category
  categories.select('categories.id, categories.name, count(books.id) as count').group('categories.id, categories.name').map do |c|
    {
      name: c.name,
      count: c.count
    }
  end
end

SQL-:

SELECT categories.id, categories.name, count(books.id) as count 
  FROM "categories" 
  INNER JOIN "books_categories" ON "categories"."id" = "books_categories"."category_id" 
  INNER JOIN "books" ON "books_categories"."book_id" = "books"."id" 
  WHERE "books"."store_id" = 1 
  GROUP BY categories.id, categories.name

Answer 2

( ) Object, - .

Category.joins(:books).select('categories.*, COUNT(books.id) as book_count').group('categories.id')

book_count, . , , , . , :

Category.joins('LEFT OUTER JOIN books_categories on books_categories.category_id = categories.id').select('categories.*, COUNT(books_categories.book_id) as book_count').group('categories.id')