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Added documentation about :limit not working with eager loading
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git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@1224 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
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dhh committed Apr 19, 2005
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Expand Up @@ -121,28 +121,31 @@ def clear_association_cache #:nodoc:
#
# Consider the following loop using the class above:
#
# for post in Post.find(:all, :limit => 100)
# for post in Post.find(:all)
# puts "Post: " + post.title
# puts "Written by: " + post.author.name
# puts "Last comment on: " + post.comments.first.created_on
# end
#
# To iterate over these one hundred posts, we'll generate 201 database queries. Let's first just optimize it for retrieving the author:
#
# for post in Post.find(:all, :limit => 100, :include => :author)
# for post in Post.find(:all, :include => :author)
#
# This references the name of the belongs_to association that also used the :author symbol, so the find will now weave in a join something
# like this: LEFT OUTER JOIN authors ON authors.id = posts.author_id. Doing so will cut down the number of queries from 201 to 101.
#
# We can improve upon the situation further by referencing both associations in the finder with:
#
# for post in Post.find(:all, :limit => 100, :include => [ :author, :comments ])
# for post in Post.find(:all, :include => [ :author, :comments ])
#
# That'll add another join along the lines of: LEFT OUTER JOIN comments ON comments.post_id = posts.id. And we'll be down to 1 query.
# But that shouldn't fool you to think that you can pull out huge amounts of data with no performance penalty just because you've reduced
# the number of queries. The database still needs to send all the data to Active Record and it still needs to be processed. So its no
# catch-all for performance problems, but its a great way to cut down on the number of queries in a situation as the one described above.
#
# Please note that because eager loading is fetching both models and associations in the same grab, it doesn't make sense to use the
# :limit property and it will be ignored if attempted.
#
# == Modules
#
# By default, associations will look for objects within the current module scope. Consider:
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