Multiple :includes not working

Rails
1

Can you run a query and have multiple includes? I am able to do this
through joins, but was trying to get it to work with includes.

This works
a.find(:all, :include => :b)
and
a.find(:all, :include => :c)

but
a.find(:all, :include => :b, :include => :c)
does not. It only returns the join of a and c (or the last table in the
list)

The mappings between tables should be correct, a has b_id and c_id
columns.

Any ideas on how this can be done?

2

Hi –

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Alex T. wrote:

a.find(:all, :include => :b, :include => :c)
does not. It only returns the join of a and c (or the last table in the
list)

You have to do:

:include => [:b, :c]

i.e., an array. Remember that all that :key => value stuff is
actually a hash. If you give two :include keys, one will get
clobbered.

David

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3

You have to do:

:include => [:b, :c]

i.e., an array. Remember that all that :key => value stuff is
actually a hash. If you give two :include keys, one will get
clobbered.

Worked great, glad it was just something simple!