NAME

       DBIx::Class::Helper::ResultSet::Random - Get random rows from a ResultSet

SYNOPSIS

        # note that this is normally a component for a ResultSet
        package MySchema::ResultSet::Bar;

        use strict;
        use warnings;

        use parent 'DBIx::Class::ResultSet';

        __PACKAGE__->load_components('Helper::ResultSet::Random');

        # in code using resultset:
        my $random_row  = $schema->resultset('Bar')->rand->single;

DESCRIPTION

       This component allows convenient selection of random rows.  See "NOTE" in
       DBIx::Class::Helper::ResultSet for a nice way to apply it to your entire schema.

       Currently this works by doing something akin to

        SELECT TOP($x) from $table ORDER BY RANDOM()

       Lots of people think this is slow.  My own benchmarks show that doing the above, for 10
       rows in a table with just over 8 million rows, is nearly instant.  Although that was with
       SQL Server, and different databases will handle that differently.

       So please, if you have performance issues and want this to work with your database, get in
       touch and I will do what I can to get it to work quickly enough to suite your needs.

METHODS

   rand
       This method takes a single argument, being the size of the random ResultSet to return.  It
       defaults to 1.  This Component will throw exceptions if the argument is not an integer or
       not greater than zero.

   _rand_order_by
       This module currently does an "ORDER BY" on some db specific function.  If for some reason
       it guesses incorrectly for your database the easiest way to fix that in the short-term (ie
       without patching upstream) is to override this method.  So for example, if your db uses
       "RAND()" instead of "RANDOM()" and it's not in the predefined list of dbs you could just
       do the following in your ResultSet class:

        sub _rand_order_by { 'RAND()' }

AUTHOR

       Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt <frioux+cpan@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.