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Has ActiveRecord::Relation already been grouped?

I've recently run into a situation where I needed to apply a group statement to an ActiveRecord scope if a group statement had already been applied. In this case we need to examine the current scope to see if in fact a group statement has already been applied. ActiveRecord::Relation fortunately has a group_values method that returns an array of all the columns that the query has been grouped by as symbols.

if current_scope.group_values.length > 1
  current_scope.group(:another_column)
else
  current_scope
end
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