What is scope/named_scope in rails?

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A scope is a subset of a collection. Sounds complicated? It isn’t. Imagine this:

You have Users. Now, some of those Users are subscribed to your newsletter. You marked those who receive a newsletter by adding a field to the Users Database (user.subscribed_to_newsletter = true). Naturally, you sometimes want to get those Users who are subscribed to your newsletter.

You could, of course, always do this:

User.where(subscribed_to_newsletter: true).each do #something

Instead of always writing this you could, however, do something like this.

#File: users.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  scope :newsletter, where(subscribed_to_newsletter: true)
  #yada yada
end

If you’re using Rails 4 or newer, do this instead:

#File: users.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  scope :newsletter, -> { where(subscribed_to_newsletter: true) }
  #yada yada
end

This allows you to access your subscribers by simply doing this:

User.newsletter.each do #something

This is a very simple example but in general scopes can be very powerful tools to easy your work.

Check out this link: API Description

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