Possible to order by the count of an association in active record?

As you say, counter_cache seems to be the closest to doing it the "rails way". So far I have not encountered any AR defined methods for this specific purpose but this is the closest thing to it that I have seen.

Pretty sure you can do something like this as well if you want.

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