Rails 4 Accessing Join Table Attributes

Question

I have a has_many through join table setup for a recipe app where Ingredient and Meal connect through MealIngredient. Wit

Answer 1

In this case, you should loop through the meal_ingredients association. You should eager load the ingredients association to reduce db queries.

@meal.meal_ingredients.includes(:ingredient).each do |meal_ingredient|
  puts meal_ingredient.amount
  puts meal_ingredient.ingredient.name
end

UPDATE

This update came after Rich Peck's answer but I think there's a simpler way to achieve what he did.

@meal.ingredients.select('ingredients.*, meal_ingredients.amount').each do |ingredient|
  puts ingredient.amount
  puts ingredient.name
end