# Is activeresource really slow for find with :conditions?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-activeresource-really-slow-for-find-with-conditions/157343>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 9, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-activeresource-really-slow-for-find-with-conditions/157343 "2009-01-09T17:26:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-activeresource-really-slow-for-find-with-conditions/157343/1 "2009-01-09T17:26:58Z")

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I have a DRb process on another machine that communicates with the  
server. It seems like if I do a find() where I specify a :condition  
through Act-res it will take very long time and most finds of this  
sort seem like they may send over all of the records in XML.

What I ended up doing for know is have the server send over all the  
id’s of the records I need so I can just do a regular find by id. I  
had also had some problems with record relationships belongs\_to and so  
on, so I just send over the child record ids as well for now. I had  
tried to find documentation on that, but had some problems with that  
and other things and haven’t gone back to that as it was unclear what  
the routing was supposed to be etc …