I've been trying to find a proper solution for this problem but didn't succeed. I know that we can't do select with include statement.
For example I have a model called Parent which have many children. I tried following things
1) When I tried this
Parent.includes(:children).select("parent.name, children.age")
Rails completely ignores the select clause.
2) Then I tried this
Parent.joins(:children).select("parent.name, children.age")
The select clause works but instead of returning a nested object it returns me a flat array of objects. So I have to again run a group by command on it to make it nested.
3) I found something called preload, but again not enough documentation for it.
I'm tired of finding a solution to this problem. Can someone point me in a right direction.
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By nested object I meant I should be able to do things like
@parents.each do |parent|
puts parent.name
parent.children.each do |child|
puts child.age
end
end
I can achieve this with include but then it selects all attributes which are not needed.