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🕵️‍♀️ Task

Select the first 5 records from the movies table

movies

id (integer)
title (string)
year (integer)
duration (integer)
description (text)
image (string)
director_id (integer)

directors

id (integer)
name (string)
dob (date)
bio (text)
image (string)

actors

id (integer)
name (string)
dob (date)
bio (text)
image (string)

characters

id (integer)
actor_id (integer)
movie_id (integer)
name (string)

📖Method

You can limit the number of records in an ActiveRecord::Relation with .limit. You pass an Integer argument to choose the number of records you want to appear in the collection.

Data

id	title	year	duration	description	image	director_id

Data

id	name	dob	bio	image

Data

id	name	dob	bio	image
325	Dooley Wilson	1886-04-03	"You must remember this, a ...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
326	Joy Page	1924-11-09	Actress Joy Page (nee Joy C...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
327	John Qualen	1899-12-08	One of the best and most fa...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
328	Leonid Kinskey	1903-04-18	Leonid Kinskey, originally ...
331	Gabriel Byrne	1950-05-12	Byrne was the first of six ...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
332	Benicio Del Toro	1967-02-19	Benicio Del Toro emerged in...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
333	Kevin Pollak	1957-10-30	Born in San Francisco in 19...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...
334	Kevin Spacey	1959-07-26	As enigmatic as he is talen...	http://ia.media-imdb.com/im...

Data

id	actor_id	movie_id	name
328	291	23	Clarice Starling
329	292	23	FBI Instructor
330	293	23	Ardelia Mapp
331	294	23	Agent Burroughs
332	295	23	Jack Crawford
333	296	23	Dr. Frederick Chilton
334	297	23	Barney
335	298	23	Friendly Psychopath

Examples

Select the first 2 records from the persons table

Person.all.limit(2)
=> #<Person::ActiveRecord_Relation:0x00007fa4341e1ee8>

Select the first 10 records from the dishes table

Dish.all.limit(10)
=> #<Dish::ActiveRecord_Relation:0x00007fa4341e1ee8>