I agree with Matt on this subject. Even if we could come up with useful
heuristics, we would not deprecate includes, eager_load and preload. There
are always situations you can't detect. Also I wouldn't want to use that
feature on some of my apps. It can be crucial what Query is executed and
On May 16, 2014, at 2:35 PM, Lawrence Wu lawre...@lawrencewu.me wrote:
I'd like to deprecate methods like includes and eager_load in Rails since I
think it is possible to automatically detect when they are needed. Ideally
the developer could know very little about how databases work and
I'd like to deprecate methods like includes and eager_load in Rails since I
think it is possible to automatically detect when they are needed. Ideally
the developer could know very little about how databases work and still get
very efficient queries using just the ORM. What do other people
There's a ton of magic in active record as is. If you have ideas on a big
change like the one you are suggesting, you should fork active record and get
it working to get feedback. After that it's worth discussing.
If you really want to help here, take a look at open issues tagged with active
