I’ve upgraded our project from Mongoid 2.0.2 to 2.4.0. It took me a few days since our specs raised a couple of real issues. If you’re doing the same, take Mongoid from the tip of 2.4.0-Stable.
If you remember, 2.0.2 dropped pagination support and a helpful Kaminari gem took over (details here). Once again the upgrade had a surprise, the number of items on the current page was wrong, displaying the entire count of a collection. I thought this was a bug in Mongoid and created mongoid#1584. Turns out that the behavior of count on a_ Mongoid::Criteria_ is now aligned with the Ruby driver, which takes a curious boolean skip_and_limit parameter that basically says whether to take limit and skip _options into account. So calling _Foo.limit(1).count may return 10 if there’re 10 Foos. The fix is to call Foo.limit(1).count(true). I am going to guess this was a bug in the Mongo driver and the additional of a boolean was a clever hack?
Kaminari needed to pass the boolean, which meant adding a current_page_count to the Kamiari collection wrapper, pulled in #194. Next version (probably 0.14.0) will have the fix. In the meantime, I am not super happy with my implementation:
- It’s not possible to know whether count takes a parameter, method(:count).arity doesn’t provide enough indication for optional parameters, so the code relies on a ArgumentError.
- MongoMapper needed the same fix, but is lacking a way to pass count to the driver. The current implementation calls to_a, which can’t be good when you just want a count.