Aryk Grosz wrote:
Is there anyway to get the join table attributes to show up as attributes on the has_many association when the has_many is eager loaded. I think the eager loaded part is the gotcha to all this.
For example, if I have book.contributors, and the join table "contributions" had a contribution_date on it. How can I get the date onto the contributors' objects.
That way I can do book.contributors[0].contribution_date. Is it not possible to do when its included?
The attributes should be there if you're using has_and_belongs_to_many.
But if you're using has_many_through, eager load like this
book = Book.find(..., :include => {:contributions => :contributor})
Then access like this:
book.contributions[0].contribution_date book.contributions[0].contributor.name
