The whole operation smells like a somewhat premature operation, unless either Item or ItemType has a whole bunch of fields you didn't mention. Why not just let AR work the way it does?
Item.find(:all, :include => :item_type, :conditions => { :'item_types.name' => %w(Material Weapon Armor Accessory) }) (that last bit changes the chain of 'OR's above into an IN statement, which is a cheap optimization, and easier to change later...) --Matt Jones On Apr 16, 9:49 pm, Scott Kulik <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote: > Harold wrote: > > The find's :select option is ignored when you combine it with > > the :include option. > > > On Apr 16, 8:58 pm, Scott Kulik <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> > > thanks. i removed the include and did my joins manually. i guess > that's probably the best way: > > find(:all, > :select => 'item_types.name, items.id, items.name', > :joins => 'join item_types on items.item_type_id = > item_types.id', > :conditions => ['item_types.name = ? OR item_types.name = ? OR > item_types.name = ? OR item_types.name = ?', 'Material', 'Weapon', > 'Armor', 'Accessory'], > :order => 'items.name') > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---