LEFT OUTER JOIN in Rails 4

Question

I have 3 models:

class Student < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :student_enrollments, dependent: :destroy
  has_many :courses, through: :student_enrollment         


        

Answer 1

If anyone came here looking for a generic way to do a left outer join in Rails 5, you can use the #left_outer_joins function.

Multi-join example:

Ruby:

Source.
 select('sources.id', 'count(metrics.id)').
 left_outer_joins(:metrics).
 joins(:port).
 where('ports.auto_delete = ?', true).
 group('sources.id').
 having('count(metrics.id) = 0').
 all

SQL:

SELECT sources.id, count(metrics.id)
  FROM "sources"
  INNER JOIN "ports" ON "ports"."id" = "sources"."port_id"
  LEFT OUTER JOIN "metrics" ON "metrics"."source_id" = "sources"."id"
  WHERE (ports.auto_delete = 't')
  GROUP BY sources.id
  HAVING (count(metrics.id) = 0)
  ORDER BY "sources"."id" ASC