Rails Eager Load and Limit

Question

I think I need something akin to a rails eager loaded query with a limit on it but I am having trouble finding a solution for that.

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Answer 1

Regardless of what "that article" said, the issue is in SQL you can't narrow down the second sql query (of eager loading) the way you want in this scenario, purely by using a standard LIMIT

You can, however, add a new column and perform a WHERE clause instead

1. Change your second association to Person has_many :sample_of_comments, conditions: { is_sample: true }
2. Add a is_sample column to comments table
3. Add a Comment#before_create hook that assigns is_sample = person.sample_of_comments.count < 5