Feature Request: Display amount of projects in each section about theodinproject HOT 6 CLOSED

Thanks for the suggestion, I think this a good idea. I've assigned you @nikitarevenco

Just a couple of notes from me.

I'm not sure if a pipe will be enough of a visual separator between the two counts. But we could maybe use the same icons we use on course pages to do something like this:

To make getting these counts simpler and to save us needing to make two count queries for each course we render. We can add lessons_count and projects_count columns to our courses table

Rails has a counter cache utility but I don't think we can use it here with the lesson model needing to be filtered by is_project.

Our courses can only be updated through our seeds files, so we could add a script that updates lesson and project counts for each course after the the curriculum is seeded in this file.

Whats your thoughts?

What a wonderful idea. I really like it a lot, however I don't think I will be able to complete this, as I have only just finished the foundations section and don't know anything about Rails to add a script like that. Can you please assign someone else?

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Sure thing! we create and update our curriculum using Rails seeds in all environments including production. If we need to add, remove or update a lesson or project, we do it in the seeds. It's the perfect place to perform the counts we need for this feature. Our seeds docs might help make it clearer.

We basically need something like this in the seeds after we create all the curriculum records:

Course.all.each do |course|
  course.update!(lessons_count: ..., projects_count: ...)
end

Does that make sense? happy to clarify anything that doesn't.

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Thanks for the suggestion, I think this a good idea. I've assigned you @nikitarevenco

Just a couple of notes from me.

I'm not sure if a pipe will be enough of a visual separator between the two counts. But we could maybe use the same icons we use on course pages to do something like this:

To make getting these counts simpler and to save us needing to make two count queries for each course we render. We can add lessons_count and projects_count columns to our courses table

Rails has a counter cache utility but I don't think we can use it here with the lesson model needing to be filtered by is_project.

Our courses can only be updated through our seeds files, so we could add a script that updates lesson and project counts for each course after the the curriculum is seeded in this file.

Whats your thoughts?

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Does this mean i can work on this? @KevinMulhern

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Yep all yours @sparshalc, are you happy with the approach outlined in this comment?

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Yep all yours @sparshalc, are you happy with the approach outlined in this comment?

"I'd like clarification on the statement: 'Our courses can only be updated through our seeds files, so we could add a script that updates lesson and project counts for each course after the curriculum is seeded in this file.' Can you please provide more details to help me understand this process better?"

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