I have a Client model and a Product model where a Client has many Products and a Product belongs to a CLient.
I need to find a query that only returns Clients if they have a record in the Product table
clients table
id | name
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1 | Company A
2 | Company B
3 | Company C
products table
id | name | client_id
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1 | Product A | 1
2 | Product B | 1
3 | Product C | 3
4 | Product D | 3
5 | Product E | 1
I only need Clients 1 3
For example something like
@clients = Client.where("client exists in products") #something to this effect
Simplest but not the fastest:
Client.where(:id => Product.select(:client_id).map(&:client_id))
SQL subquery (more faster):
Client.where("EXISTS(SELECT 1 from products where clients.id = products.client_id)")