[Rails] top 10/most popular lists

What's the best way to handle views that show the top 10/most popular/
Recently updated/most commented type listing?

Should I have a separate model that is populated with records from
other models by a background job or should I need to use some sort of
caching? Perhaps both?

Thanks!

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