On Sep 22, 9:16 pm, Ben Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Thanks for your help. I am still somewhat confused though.
>
> So is the general rule of thumb to use joins on belongs to relationships
> and include on has_many. It looks as if joins returns flawed results is
> used on a has_many relationship. Is this correct?
>
No. Use :joins when you want a join. Use include when you want to
avoid the n+1 problem (ie you want rails to load and populate the
associations).
Fred
> I would prefer to avoid include because it is so much slower, but joins
> doesnt seem to return the correct records.
>
> Thanks.
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