Rails - May 2005 - Potential find bug with :include and :order

I''m posting this to confirm that what I''m doing should work
before I
log an official bug.

I have two tables, "folders" and "messages" with a habtm
relationship
between them. In folders, the relationship is defined as:

     has_and_belongs_to_many :messages, :order => "date DESC"

I also have a FeedFolder model, which is a subclass of Folder.

When, in a controller, I do a find as follows:

     @folder = FeedFolder.find @params["id"], :include =>
[:messages]

the find returns the correct results, but @folders.messages is not  
ordered correctly. Looking at the SQL in development.log, I see:

     SELECT ... FROM folders LEFT OUTER JOIN folders_messages ON  
folders_messages.folder_id = folders.id LEFT OUTER JOIN messages ON  
folders_messages.message_id = messages.id WHERE folders.id =
''11'' AND
(folders.type = ''FeedFolder'' )

Note the lack of an ORDER BY clause.

I can force the correct result by doing:

     @folder = FeedFolder.find @params["id"], :include =>  
[:messages], :order => "messages.date DESC"


If this is me stuffing something up rather than a bug then feel free  
to put me in my place. :)

Cheers,

Pete Yandell