magnusvk/counter_culture

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2118 stars · 224 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

counter_culture is a Ruby gem that provides enhanced counter caches for Rails ActiveRecord applications. It keeps denormalized count and sum columns up to date on value changes, across multi-level relations, with dynamic column names.

Use cases

• keep a count of associated records up to date in a parent table
• maintain running totals of child record values in Rails
• avoid expensive COUNT queries on large Rails associations
• track counts through multi-level ActiveRecord relations
• split counters by record type with dynamic column names

When to choose

• you use Rails/ActiveRecord and need accurate, automatically maintained counter caches
• you need counters or sums that update when attribute values change, not just on create/destroy
• you need counters across has_many :through or nested relations

When to avoid

• you are not using Ruby on Rails or ActiveRecord
• you expect .size on associations to use the cache - this gem does not change .size behavior
• you only need simple create/destroy counters and Rails' built-in counter_cache suffices

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database caching orm databases web-development developer-tools ruby counter-cache activerecord rails-gem denormalization rails

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