> But how to return records with no Orders.... ? I'm thinking that I may
> need something along the lines of:
> But that seems ugly.
>
> Any suggestions for neater ways?
>

How about using counter caches - something like:

class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :customer, :counter_cache => true
end

class Customer < Person
  has_many :orders
  default_scope :conditions => { :orders_count > 0}
end

http://guides.rails.info/association_basics.html#belongs-to-association-reference
(section 4.1.2.4)

Cheers,


Andy

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