[andatki]

I tend to agree as a SQL enthusiast. However I have yet to see a Rails team that doesn’t use Active Record or writes much SQL directly, or by default, across 100s of apps. I’m sure it happens but in my experience it’s rare.

This is a place where I think tools like Rubocop help. They can be configured to point out method swaps like this (size over count) automatically which is a relatively low effort task to change the code.

With those rules/linting in place, you aren’t throwing out the benefits of AR (ORM), and hopefully leveraging their useful methods like these that help avoid unnecessary queries.