I don't believe this should be in core for a few reasons :

1) It's not needed very often
2) Difficult to make it work with eager loading. Your patch only deals
with preloading.
3) I'd prefer using a plugin like http://github.com/mcmire/ar_attr_lazy/

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Josh Symonds <[email protected]> wrote:
> I read the Rails 3 Beta call email and I wanted to try to raise this ticket
> again to maybe get it a bit more visibility before the beta comes out.
> Anyone feel like commenting on this patch? I've found it helpful, anyway!
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Josh Symonds <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> This isn't *necessarily* a problem. If you have an association named
>> :except you can still eagerly load it using either the array syntax:
>>
>> User.find(:all, :include => [:comments, :except])
>>
>> Or just the regular symbol notation:
>>
>> User.find(:all, :include => :except)
>>
>> If you include it in the hash notation though, it definitely will think
>> you're going to specify column names to remove from the select:
>>
>> User.find(:all, :include => {:comments => :except})
>>
>> Will now bomb out, where before it would assume that you want to include
>> comments and then include except on comments, like you said. In making the
>> patch I figured the amount of people who would be helped by the performance
>> improvements probably outweighs the number of people who have associations
>> named "except." But hey, I could be wrong.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Jeremy Evans <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Josh Symonds <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I made a patch to allow eager loading to exclude specified columns on
>>> > the
>>> > eagerly-loaded models. If you have a model that you want to load for a
>>> > specific reason -- like, say, you have lots of users, and you want to
>>> > grab
>>> > all their posts but exclude the posts' bodies -- you can now specify
>>> > that by
>>> > going:
>>> >
>>> > User.find(:all, :include => {:posts => {:except => :body}})
>>>
>>> Isn't this already supported syntax (which would load the :except
>>> association for posts and the :body association for excepts)?  Not
>>> that I think having an association named :except is a good idea, but
>>> it's something to consider.
>>>
>>> Jeremy
>>>
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