In my App ..i have Userinfo and FriendsInfo table.Each user has many friends.those friends are user of the app. for example i have 3 users in my userinfo table.namely =>John =>Victor =>Masvi the users can add other users as friends.the user john has friends as victor and masvi.these information i have stored in my FriendsInfo table. friendstable structure id user_id friend_id 1 1 2 1 1 3 if i want to find who are friends of the john.. i do query like this @friends = Userinfo.find(:all,:conditions => {:user_id => params[user_id]}) so i will be getting all the friends id of john(his id is 1) the @friends result set is array. if i want display the friends name of john means i do query like this @friends_name = Array.new @friends.each do |f| @name = Userinfo.find_by_id(f.friend_id) @friends_name << @name end how can i optimise my queries to get the above friends name... pls help -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---