I'm having a bit of brain fade today and can't figure out how I should express this SQL query correctly using ActiveRecord/Squeel/ARel:
SELECT `d1`.* FROM `domain_names` d1
WHERE `d1`.`created_at` = (
SELECT MAX(`d2`.`created_at`)
FROM `domain_names` d2
WHERE `d2`.`owner_type` = `d1`.`owner_type`
AND `d2`.`owner_id` = `d1`.`owner_id`
AND `d2`.`key` = `d1`.`key`
)
Any ideas?
Background: The DomainName model has a polymorphic owner as well as a "key" field that allows owners to have many different types of domain name. The query above fetches the latest domain name for each unique [owner_type, owner_id, key]
tuple.
Edit:
Here's the same query using JOIN:
SELECT `d1`.* FROM `domain_names` d1
JOIN (
SELECT `owner_type`, `owner_id`, `key`, MAX(`created_at`) max_created_at
FROM `domain_names`
GROUP BY `owner_type`, `owner_id`, `key`
) d2
ON `d2`.`owner_type` = `d1`.`owner_type`
AND `d2`.`owner_id` = `d1`.`owner_id`
AND `d2`.`key` = `d1`.`key`
WHERE `d1`.`created_at` = `d2`.`max_created_at`