Rails Joins and include columns from joins table

Question

I don\'t understand how to get the columns I want from rails. I have two models - A User and a Profile. A User :has_many Profile (because users can revert back to an earlier

Answer 1

After reading these tips I got the joins to all be loaded in one query by reading 3 ways to do eager loading (preloading) in Rails 3 & 4.

I'm using Rails 4 and this worked like a charm for me:

refs = Referral.joins(:job)
          .joins(:referee)
          .joins(:referrer)
          .where("jobs.poster_id= ?", user.contact_id)
          .order(created_at: :desc) 
          .eager_load(:job, :referee, :referrer)

Here were my other attempts.

#first attempt
#refs = Referral.joins(:job)
#          .where("jobs.poster_id= ?", user.contact_id)
#          .select("referrals.*, jobs.*")
# works, but each column needs to be explicitly referenced to be used later.
# also there are conflicts for columns with the same name like id

#second attempt
#refs = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.exec_query("SELECT jobs.id AS job_id, jobs.*, referrals.id as referral_id, referrals.* FROM referrals INNER JOIN jobs ON job_id = referrals.job_id WHERE (jobs.poster_id=#{user.contact_id});")
# this worked OK, but returned back a funky object, plus the column name
# conflict from the previous method remains an issue.


#third attempt using a view + rails_db_views
#refs = JobReferral.where(:poster_id => user.contact_id)
# this worked well. Unfortunately I couldn't use the SQL statement from above
# instead of jobs.* I had to explicitly alias and name each column.
# Additionally it brought back a ton of duplicate data that I was putting
# into an array when really it is nice to work with ActiveRecord objects.

#eager_load
#refs = Referral.joins(:job)
#          .where("jobs.poster_id= ?", user.contact_id)
#          .eager_load(:job)
# this was my base attempt that worked before I added in two more joins :)