active record, ignore a column

rubyonrails-talk
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use the :select option to find:

:select: By default, this is * as in SELECT * FROM, but can be changed if you for example want to do a join, but not include the joined columns

Mike

2

Override the find method in your model class... untested but perhaps something like this:

def find(*args)   without_data do     super   end end

def without_data(&block)   with_scope(:find => { :select => ["name"] }, &block) end

WARNING! I've never implemented anything quite like that so I have no idea how close that code is to working but I think it's the right idea.

good luck!