From dc2c2c3e95102124bb6157b8f66649e6546cbdda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Hahn <brian.hahn@crowdflower.com>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 10:09:07 -0700
Subject: convenience method for outer_join

---
 lib/arel/select_manager.rb | 4 ++++
 lib/arel/table.rb          | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'lib/arel')

diff --git a/lib/arel/select_manager.rb b/lib/arel/select_manager.rb
index 804316209c..0bcffba680 100644
--- a/lib/arel/select_manager.rb
+++ b/lib/arel/select_manager.rb
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ module Arel
       self
     end
 
+    def outer_join relation
+      join(relation, Nodes::OuterJoin)
+    end
+
     def having *exprs
       @ctx.having = Nodes::Having.new(collapse(exprs, @ctx.having))
       self
diff --git a/lib/arel/table.rb b/lib/arel/table.rb
index 16ae83c284..3866637bd2 100644
--- a/lib/arel/table.rb
+++ b/lib/arel/table.rb
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ primary_key (#{caller.first}) is deprecated and will be removed in Arel 4.0.0
       from(self).join(relation, klass)
     end
 
+    def outer_join relation
+      join(relation, Nodes::OuterJoin)
+    end
+
     def group *columns
       from(self).group(*columns)
     end
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