How would you refactor this if you only wanted to refetch the number of comments and not the entire project.

Would that even be possible?

@joshua_b, Comments are related to the projects so no. I can't think of a way where you can grab the comments without querying the project they belong to.

How would you refactor this if you only wanted to refetch the number of comments and not the entire project.

Would that even be possible?

@daniel-eppler That is the first thing I thought when seeing the function.

On the other hand I can see lots of use-cases where being able to circle between a subset of elements would helpful.

I tend to like fat models, because I think that they're more than just data, they are "entities". So they perform actions as well. But I extract the code sometimes when it makes sense for me. So, like Povillas would say: it depends.