Hi all
I'm battling a little with Rails 3 - trying to get Thinking Sphinx working with it. What I need is some way to interrogate ARel joins to find out table aliases, given a certain association hierarchy.
For example - a forum has a creator (User model), and many topics. Each topic has a creator as well. So, this is a valid query:
Forum.joins(:creator).joins(:topics => :creator)
The resulting SQL has two references to the users table - how can I interrogate the relation object to find out the users table alias for the :topics => :creator association path?
A far more detailed analysis of what I want can be found as a gist: gist:441625 · GitHub
Any suggestions very much welcome.
Cheers
