Choosing join operator for join hash (activerecord)

rubyonrails-core
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Hi,

a simple patch to let app developers choose to use LEFT JOIN instead of INNER JOIN for join hashes in find. Thus, named_scopes can be used more flexible, e.g. when defining OR'ed conditions on different associations.

Ticket http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/2063-choosing-join-operator-for-hash-joins

Patch http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/attachments/92545/add_join_operator_option.diff

Please have a look.

Thanks, Steffen