Rails select random record

Question

I don\'t know if I\'m just looking in the wrong places here or what, but does active record have a method for retrieving a random object?

Something like?

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Answer 1

In Rails 4 I would extend ActiveRecord::Relation:

class ActiveRecord::Relation
  def random
    offset(rand(count))
  end
end

This way you can use scopes:

SomeModel.all.random.first # Return one random record
SomeModel.some_scope.another_scope.random.first