When an association has joins (either to filter the association or
calculate something), it cannot be eager loaded with includes. The
*joins
*command seems to be omitted and I get an error saying the table doesn’t
exist cause it didn’t the join when eager loading.
Example:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :purchases
Perform joins and attach some calculations to the User object
scope :add_stats, -> {
group(“users.id”).joins(:purchases).select(“users.*,
SUM(purchases.price) AS total_purchases”) }end
class Purchase < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :userend
The add_stats scope represents heavy calculations attached to the User
objects.
So if I want to get all User objects with stats, I just write
User.all.add_stats.
So far so good. Now I want to fetch some Purchase objects and eager load
the Users with stats as well. I’ve tried this:
belongs_to :user, -> { add_stats }
But then when Rails eager load the users, it seems to remove
.group(“user.id”).joins(:purchases) and complain on purchases.price -
“purchases table unknown”. So the .select() is the only thing preserved
from the scope.
How do I apply a scope (with working .group().joins()) to the eager
load
query of all included belongs_to :user objects?