@object = Object.find(:first, :conditions => [''object.id = ?'', params[:id]], :include => [:user, {:comments => [{:children => :user}, :user]}]) That :include statement is troublesome. I am trying to eager-load comments so that there will be 0 database queries during rendering. In my experience, queries during rendering slow things down quite a bit, especially when you''re querying for a lot of little things, like comments or forum posts. So far the above code was the only way I got one of my actions/views to work without queries during rendering. The problem is that it looks sloppy as hell, and I''m not sure if it''s optimized. I am trying to find an Object, then eager load the User that owns that Object; then eager load the Comments for that Object, then eager load the Users that own those Comments; and then eager load the children of those Comments, and then eager load the Users that own those child-Comments. (For some reason :include => :comments only loads parent comments when using acts_as_tree, so I have to get the children separately.) This is what leads me to this extra-convoluted :include. Is there a better way to do this or is this about as good as it gets? class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :objects has_many :comments end class Object < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user has_many :comments end class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_tree belongs_to :object belongs_to :user end --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---