Module: ActiveRecord::Batches

Defined in:
activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb,
activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/batches/batch_enumerator.rb

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: BatchEnumerator

Constant Summary collapse

ORDER_IGNORE_MESSAGE = 
"Scoped order is ignored, it's forced to be batch order."

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#find_each(start: nil, finish: nil, batch_size: 1000, error_on_ignore: nil, order: :asc, &block) ⇒ Object

Looping through a collection of records from the database (using the Scoping::Named::ClassMethods.all method, for example) is very inefficient since it will try to instantiate all the objects at once.

In that case, batch processing methods allow you to work with the records in batches, thereby greatly reducing memory consumption.

The #find_each method uses #find_in_batches with a batch size of 1000 (or as specified by the :batch_size option).

Person.find_each do |person|
  person.do_awesome_stuff
end

Person.where("age > 21").find_each do |person|
  person.party_all_night!
end

If you do not provide a block to #find_each, it will return an Enumerator for chaining with other methods:

Person.find_each.with_index do |person, index|
  person.award_trophy(index + 1)
end

Options

  • :batch_size - Specifies the size of the batch. Defaults to 1000.

  • :start - Specifies the primary key value to start from, inclusive of the value.

  • :finish - Specifies the primary key value to end at, inclusive of the value.

  • :error_on_ignore - Overrides the application config to specify if an error should be raised when an order is present in the relation.

  • :order - Specifies the primary key order (can be :asc or :desc). Defaults to :asc.

Limits are honored, and if present there is no requirement for the batch size: it can be less than, equal to, or greater than the limit.

The options start and finish are especially useful if you want multiple workers dealing with the same processing queue. You can make worker 1 handle all the records between id 1 and 9999 and worker 2 handle from 10000 and beyond by setting the :start and :finish option on each worker.

# In worker 1, let's process until 9999 records.
Person.find_each(finish: 9_999) do |person|
  person.party_all_night!
end

# In worker 2, let's process from record 10_000 and onwards.
Person.find_each(start: 10_000) do |person|
  person.party_all_night!
end

NOTE: Order can be ascending (:asc) or descending (:desc). It is automatically set to ascending on the primary key (“id ASC”). This also means that this method only works when the primary key is orderable (e.g. an integer or string).

NOTE: By its nature, batch processing is subject to race conditions if other processes are modifying the database.



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# File 'activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb', line 68

def find_each(start: nil, finish: nil, batch_size: 1000, error_on_ignore: nil, order: :asc, &block)
  if block_given?
    find_in_batches(start: start, finish: finish, batch_size: batch_size, error_on_ignore: error_on_ignore, order: order) do |records|
      records.each(&block)
    end
  else
    enum_for(:find_each, start: start, finish: finish, batch_size: batch_size, error_on_ignore: error_on_ignore, order: order) do
      relation = self
      apply_limits(relation, start, finish, order).size
    end
  end
end

#find_in_batches(start: nil, finish: nil, batch_size: 1000, error_on_ignore: nil, order: :asc) ⇒ Object

Yields each batch of records that was found by the find options as an array.

Person.where("age > 21").find_in_batches do |group|
  sleep(50) # Make sure it doesn't get too crowded in there!
  group.each { |person| person.party_all_night! }
end

If you do not provide a block to #find_in_batches, it will return an Enumerator for chaining with other methods:

Person.find_in_batches.with_index do |group, batch|
  puts "Processing group ##{batch}"
  group.each(&:recover_from_last_night!)
end

To be yielded each record one by one, use #find_each instead.

Options

  • :batch_size - Specifies the size of the batch. Defaults to 1000.

  • :start - Specifies the primary key value to start from, inclusive of the value.

  • :finish - Specifies the primary key value to end at, inclusive of the value.

  • :error_on_ignore - Overrides the application config to specify if an error should be raised when an order is present in the relation.

  • :order - Specifies the primary key order (can be :asc or :desc). Defaults to :asc.

Limits are honored, and if present there is no requirement for the batch size: it can be less than, equal to, or greater than the limit.

The options start and finish are especially useful if you want multiple workers dealing with the same processing queue. You can make worker 1 handle all the records between id 1 and 9999 and worker 2 handle from 10000 and beyond by setting the :start and :finish option on each worker.

# Let's process from record 10_000 on.
Person.find_in_batches(start: 10_000) do |group|
  group.each { |person| person.party_all_night! }
end

NOTE: Order can be ascending (:asc) or descending (:desc). It is automatically set to ascending on the primary key (“id ASC”). This also means that this method only works when the primary key is orderable (e.g. an integer or string).

NOTE: By its nature, batch processing is subject to race conditions if other processes are modifying the database.



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# File 'activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb', line 128

def find_in_batches(start: nil, finish: nil, batch_size: 1000, error_on_ignore: nil, order: :asc)
  relation = self
  unless block_given?
    return to_enum(:find_in_batches, start: start, finish: finish, batch_size: batch_size, error_on_ignore: error_on_ignore, order: order) do
      total = apply_limits(relation, start, finish, order).size
      (total - 1).div(batch_size) + 1
    end
  end

  in_batches(of: batch_size, start: start, finish: finish, load: true, error_on_ignore: error_on_ignore, order: order) do |batch|
    yield batch.to_a
  end
end

#in_batches(of: 1000, start: nil, finish: nil, load: false, error_on_ignore: nil, order: :asc, use_ranges: nil) ⇒ Object

Yields ActiveRecord::Relation objects to work with a batch of records.

Person.where("age > 21").in_batches do |relation|
  relation.delete_all
  sleep(10) # Throttle the delete queries
end

If you do not provide a block to #in_batches, it will return a BatchEnumerator which is enumerable.

Person.in_batches.each_with_index do |relation, batch_index|
  puts "Processing relation ##{batch_index}"
  relation.delete_all
end

Examples of calling methods on the returned BatchEnumerator object:

Person.in_batches.delete_all
Person.in_batches.update_all(awesome: true)
Person.in_batches.each_record(&:party_all_night!)

Options

  • :of - Specifies the size of the batch. Defaults to 1000.

  • :load - Specifies if the relation should be loaded. Defaults to false.

  • :start - Specifies the primary key value to start from, inclusive of the value.

  • :finish - Specifies the primary key value to end at, inclusive of the value.

  • :error_on_ignore - Overrides the application config to specify if an error should be raised when an order is present in the relation.

  • :order - Specifies the primary key order (can be :asc or :desc). Defaults to :asc.

  • :use_ranges - Specifies whether to use range iteration (id >= x AND id <= y). It can make iterating over the whole or almost whole tables several times faster. Only whole table iterations use this style of iteration by default. You can disable this behavior by passing false. If you iterate over the table and the only condition is, e.g., archived_at: nil (and only a tiny fraction of the records are archived), it makes sense to opt in to this approach.

Limits are honored, and if present there is no requirement for the batch size, it can be less than, equal, or greater than the limit.

The options start and finish are especially useful if you want multiple workers dealing with the same processing queue. You can make worker 1 handle all the records between id 1 and 9999 and worker 2 handle from 10000 and beyond by setting the :start and :finish option on each worker.

# Let's process from record 10_000 on.
Person.in_batches(start: 10_000).update_all(awesome: true)

An example of calling where query method on the relation:

Person.in_batches.each do |relation|
  relation.update_all('age = age + 1')
  relation.where('age > 21').update_all(should_party: true)
  relation.where('age <= 21').delete_all
end

NOTE: If you are going to iterate through each record, you should call #each_record on the yielded BatchEnumerator:

Person.in_batches.each_record(&:party_all_night!)

NOTE: Order can be ascending (:asc) or descending (:desc). It is automatically set to ascending on the primary key (“id ASC”). This also means that this method only works when the primary key is orderable (e.g. an integer or string).

NOTE: By its nature, batch processing is subject to race conditions if other processes are modifying the database.



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# File 'activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb', line 209

def in_batches(of: 1000, start: nil, finish: nil, load: false, error_on_ignore: nil, order: :asc, use_ranges: nil)
  relation = self

  unless [:asc, :desc].include?(order)
    raise ArgumentError, ":order must be :asc or :desc, got #{order.inspect}"
  end

  unless block_given?
    return BatchEnumerator.new(of: of, start: start, finish: finish, relation: self, order: order, use_ranges: use_ranges)
  end

  if arel.orders.present?
    act_on_ignored_order(error_on_ignore)
  end

  batch_limit = of
  if limit_value
    remaining   = limit_value
    batch_limit = remaining if remaining < batch_limit
  end

  relation = relation.reorder(batch_order(order)).limit(batch_limit)
  relation = apply_limits(relation, start, finish, order)
  relation.skip_query_cache! # Retaining the results in the query cache would undermine the point of batching
  batch_relation = relation
  empty_scope = to_sql == klass.unscoped.all.to_sql

  loop do
    if load
      records = batch_relation.records
      ids = records.map(&:id)
      yielded_relation = where(primary_key => ids)
      yielded_relation.load_records(records)
    elsif (empty_scope && use_ranges != false) || use_ranges
      ids = batch_relation.pluck(primary_key)
      finish = ids.last
      if finish
        yielded_relation = apply_finish_limit(batch_relation, finish, order)
        yielded_relation = yielded_relation.except(:limit, :order)
        yielded_relation.skip_query_cache!(false)
      end
    else
      ids = batch_relation.pluck(primary_key)
      yielded_relation = where(primary_key => ids)
    end

    break if ids.empty?

    primary_key_offset = ids.last
    raise ArgumentError.new("Primary key not included in the custom select clause") unless primary_key_offset

    yield yielded_relation

    break if ids.length < batch_limit

    if limit_value
      remaining -= ids.length

      if remaining == 0
        # Saves a useless iteration when the limit is a multiple of the
        # batch size.
        break
      elsif remaining < batch_limit
        relation = relation.limit(remaining)
      end
    end

    batch_relation = relation.where(
      predicate_builder[primary_key, primary_key_offset, order == :desc ? :lt : :gt]
    )
  end
end