Thanks for your replay Jeff. Unfortunately, declaring my scope with the "scope" method instead of a regular method returning an ActiveRecord::Relation doesn't solve my problem. (it also creates a new one since "2.days.ago" is only evaluated when the app loads the classes and not every time the method is called)
I think the includes method should support relations as well as associations (since associations/scopes/relations are so well integrated with eachother in rails 3). That way the following : @articles = Article.includes(:comments => :recent) would build the relation in a way that recent comments are eagerly loaded (instead of complaining that comments have no association named "recent") Cheers, M-Ryan -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

