How to count the number of records in a table...
Want to find out how many records there are in a table?
You could do a table.<a href="http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M000674">find_by_sql </a> "select count(*) from table",
You could get all the records from the table and then count them, say records = table.find(:all).
Or you could do count = table.count.
How cool is that!