ActiveRecordDistinctOn

ActiveRecordDistinctOn adds support for DISTINCT ON queries to ActiveRecord. At the time of this writing, PostgreSQL is the only database which supports this syntax; however, this gem has been written with database independence in mind so that if another Arel visitor adds support for Arel::Nodes::DistinctOn in the future, it should work seamlessly.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'active_record_distinct_on'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install active_record_distinct_on

This gem defines ActiveRecord::Base.distinct_on and ActiveRecord::Relation#distinct_on. Both accept a variable number of column arguments.

For example:

Dog.distinct_on(:name, :owner_id)

Generates SQL like:

SELECT DISTINCT ON ( "dogs"."name", "dogs.owner_id" ) "dogs".* FROM "dogs"

Note: For applications using ActiveRecord à la carte (without the rails gem), none of the methods above will be defined until ActiveRecordDistinctOn.install is manually called.

The development dependencies of this gem are managed using Bundler.

After checking out the repo, run bundle install to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rake test:all to run the tests. You can also run bundle exec rake console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to RubyGems.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.