Rails - Apr 2005 - Eager associations: ordering gets mangled

Somewhere the ordering of objects retrieved from the database with 
eagerly loaded associations is messed up. I have an object where I 
eagerly load two associations. The database (PgSQL 8.0.1) returns them 
correctly as specified by the "order by" clause. But in my list view 
they appear in some arbitrary order.

My understanding is that the cause of this misbehavior lies in  
ActiveRecord::Associations#find_with_associations. There the 
instantiated "main" objects are stored in a hash and the values from 
this hash are returned. Now the problem is that the hash doesn''t 
maintain the order in which the objects (records) were originally 
returned from the database, thus objects are returned in the an 
incorrect order.

Michael

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I hit the send key too quickly. It''s already fixed:

http://dev.rubyonrails.com/ticket/1147

Michael

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