2009/5/12 Anthony Ward <[email protected]>

>
> Hi thank you
>
> so if I use the include
> how do i just retrieve the name then


Do you mean you want a query finding the child, including the
mother.namebut not the other mother fields?  I do not know whether you
can do that.  I
think the overhead of fetching all columns is going to be rather small.
Colin


>
>
> example this is using the "magic way"
>
> @children do |child|
>
>  ... print child.mother.name
>
> end
>
>
>
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