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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord/lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb index 5309651725..b16983026e 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb @@ -773,6 +773,12 @@ module ActiveRecord # like this can have unintended consequences. # In the above example posts with no approved comments are not returned at all, because # the conditions apply to the SQL statement as a whole and not just to the association. + # + # If you want to load all posts (including posts with no approved comments) then write + # your own LEFT OUTER JOIN query using ON + # + # Post.joins('LEFT OUTER JOIN comments ON comments.post_id = posts.id AND comments.approved = true') + # # You must disambiguate column references for this fallback to happen, for example # <tt>order: "author.name DESC"</tt> will work but <tt>order: "name DESC"</tt> will not. # |