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Querying guide: mention that performing a where on an relation that contains an includes statement will generate a LEFT OUTER JOIN rather than an INNER JOIN or another query

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Ryan Bigg
2011-03-22 12:16:13 +11:00
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@@ -747,6 +747,20 @@ h4. Specifying Conditions on Eager Loaded Associations
Even though Active Record lets you specify conditions on the eager loaded associations just like +joins+, the recommended way is to use "joins":#joining-tables instead.
However if you must do this, you may use +where+ as you would normally.
<ruby>
Post.includes(:comments).where("comments.visible", true)
</ruby>
This would generate a query which contains a +LEFT OUTER JOIN+ whereas the +joins+ method would generate one using the +INNER JOIN+ function instead.
<ruby>
SELECT "posts"."id" AS t0_r0, ... "comments"."updated_at" AS t1_r5 FROM "posts" LEFT OUTER JOIN "comments" ON "comments"."post_id" = "posts"."id" WHERE (comments.visible)
</ruby>
If in this case there were no comments for any posts, all the posts would still be loaded. By using +joins+ (an INNER JOIN), the join conditions *must* match, otherwise no records will be returned.
h3. Scopes
Scoping allows you to specify commonly-used ARel queries which can be referenced as method calls on the association objects or models. With these scopes, you can use every method previously covered such as +where+, +joins+ and +includes+. All scope methods will return an +ActiveRecord::Relation+ object which will allow for further methods (such as other scopes) to be called on it.