2009/5/12 pharrington <xenogene...@gmail.com> > > If you want to retrieve just the name, than use the :select option > with your find: > > @children = Child.find(:all, :include => :mother, :select => 'name') >
Does that select child.name or mother.name? Colin > > On May 12, 11:04 am, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > 2009/5/12 Anthony Ward <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> > > > > > > > > > Hi thank you > > > > > so if I use the include > > > how do i just retrieve the name then > > > > Do you mean you want a query finding the child, including the > > mother.namebut not the other mother fields? I do not know whether you > > can do that. I > > think the overhead of fetching all columns is going to be rather small. > > Colin > > > > > > > > > example this is using the "magic way" > > > > > @children do |child| > > > > > ... print child.mother.name > > > > > end > > > > > -- > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
