Colin,
 Thanks for the reply. Yes, association makes this better and easy way. But 
I'm expecting a way apart from using association. I heard *merge* will do 
this, but I'm not sure. 


On Saturday, December 1, 2012 7:38:50 PM UTC+5:30, sakthivel sekar wrote:
>
> Hi,
>  I have two models named Customer and Order.
>
> Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
> has_many :orders
> end
>
> Order < ActiveRecord::Base
> belongs_to :customer
> end
>
> Customer model has attributes like first_name and last_name. Order has 
> customer_id along with other attributes.
>
> Now, I want Customer first_name for specific order. I can get it with 
> following query.
>
> Customer.joins(:orders).where('orders.id = 1').select('first_name').
>
> But, how to get it along with attributes of order table also. Say, I want 
> both customers first_name and orders table created_at value.
> When I try,
> Order.includes(:customer).select('orders.created_at, customers.first_name')
> this returns only order table records. What is the best way to select 
> attributes of joined tables also with Active Record Query.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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