How to get the count of all records of a model in Rails console

Question

I am new to Rails.

I have an ActiveRecord model called Post. I'd like to get count of all the records of the Post model. How can I accomplish this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Try Post.all.count in your rails console if you are on Rails 4.

UPDATE:

Post.count is better as cristian mentioned

Answer 2

Post.count

is what you are looking for.