strange eager loading issues

Hi,

I am having trouble with eager loading in my app. It used to work all the time, but since upgrading to rails 2.0.2, and now rails 2.1, it doesn’t work with many of my queries. For example, this find is loaded eagerly:

@release = Release.find_by_url(params[:id],

:include => [{:artist => :artist_images}, {:songs => :track}, :collection, :hard_products, :release_images, :label],

:conditions => [“labels.name=? OR labels.name=? OR labels.name=?”, “Alien8 Recordings”, “Fancy”, “Substractif”])

but this find is not (and it is a simpler query):

@release = Release.find_by_url(params[:id],

:include => [{:songs => :track}, :collection, :hard_products])

FYI, here’s my model relationships:

class Release < ActiveRecord::Base

belongs_to :artist

belongs_to :label

has_many :release_images, :dependent => :destroy

has_many :hard_products

has_many :songs

has_one :collection

end

class Song < Product

belongs_to :release

has_one :track, :dependent => :destroy

end

class Track < ActiveRecord::Base

belongs_to :song

belongs_to :collection

end

class Collection < Product

has_many :tracks

belongs_to :release

end

Does anyone know how to force rails to load eagerly?

If the difference you are seeing only occurred when moving from 2.0.2 to 2.1 then part of what you are seing could be the changes made to eager loading in rails 2.1 (I wrote about some of them at Mixing :include and :conditions - Space Vatican)

Fred