LEFT OUTER joins in Rails 3

Question

I have the following code:

@posts = Post.joins(:user).joins(:blog).select

which is meant to find all posts and return them and the associat

Answer 1

I'm a big fan of the squeel gem:

Post.joins{user.outer}.joins{blog}

It supports both inner and outer joins, as well as the ability to specify a class/type for polymorphic belongs_to relationships.