Duplicate joins when combining scopes and :include

Hi,

I have an app using Rails 2.3.2 that chains together multiple scopes with joins and conditions on different tables. When I add :include to the finders that use these scopes, I get an Mysql::Error saying Not unique table/alias for the table that I'm including, and joining on in scopes.

The join strings are exactly the same, but the same left outer join is repeated in the SQL. I thought them being string identical would prevent that from happening?

Is this a known problem with any workarounds? At the moment I just skip the eager loading, which is hurting performance.

Thanks.