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IncludeByDefault

How to fix bugs in software the hard way, or, why open source software is so damn helpful

In IncludeByDefault, Rails, Ruby on 13 July 2007 with no comments

If nothing else, this week has taught me a few things about bug fixing. As I’ve written about before, my IncludeByDefault plugin (or, more accurately, the project I’m using it for) exposed a bug or two in Rails. Revision 17 is the result of a very messy process trying to chase a bug up and [...]

IncludeByDefault progress

In IncludeByDefault, Rails, Ruby on 11 July 2007 with no comments

IncludeByDefault, as mentioned in my last post, hit some snags with ActiveRecord generating duplicate table aliases when doing cascaded includes, e.g. Tag.find(8).posts.find(:all, :include => :tags) So, I set out to work around it, only to run into further problems. I went with option C: let find operations get all the way to the database, and [...]

Including in circles

In IncludeByDefault, Rails, Ruby on 9 July 2007 with 1 comment

Not long had I been using my new plugin when I discovered it made this happen when trying to eager-load on a many-to-many association: SELECT DISTINCT news_stories.id FROM news_stories LEFT OUTER JOIN countries_news_stories ON countries_news_stories.news_id = news_stories.id LEFT OUTER JOIN countries ON countries.id = countries_news_stories.country_id INNER JOIN countries_news_stories ON news_stories.id = countries_news_stories.news_id WHERE (countries_news_stories.country_id = [...]

New Rails plugin: IncludeByDefault

In IncludeByDefault, Rails, Ruby on 9 July 2007 with no comments

It’s true, I’m a plugin writing machine. Seriously though, this one’s tiny. I took all of five minutes to write. What it does is, it lets you specify a default value for the :include option on ActiveRecord::Base.find, so you can automate eager loading of associations. I’ll use an example I’m comfortable with: class BlogEntry < [...]