Hello I have the following code which looks for all the comments on a specified blog post and neighborhood. --- comment_activity = PostComment.find(:all, :select => "post_comments.*", :joins => "INNER JOIN posts ON posts.id = post_comments.post_id", :conditions => ["posts.neighborhood_id = ? AND post_comments.created_at >= ?", @neighborhood.id, 5.days.ago], :order => "post_comments.created_at DESC") --- It works great and generates the following SQL: --- SELECT post_comments.* FROM post_comments INNER JOIN posts ON posts.id = post_comments.post_id WHERE (posts.neighborhood_id = 1 AND post_comments.created_at >''2008-07-19 02:50:54'') ORDER BY post_comments.created_at DESC --- I added next the following code on the post_comment model to try and fetch the users who wrote each post comment. The post_comments table has a user_id column that references the user who wrote it. --- belongs_to :comment_by, :select => "id, name, lastname", :foreign_key => "user_id", :class_name => "User" ---- I added the line ":include => [:comment_by]" to my query to load the user data like this: --- comment_activity = PostComment.find(:all, :include => [:comment_by], :select => "post_comments.*", :joins => "INNER JOIN posts ON posts.id = post_comments.post_id", :conditions => ["posts.neighborhood_id = ? AND post_comments.created_at >= ?", @neighborhood.id, 5.days.ago], :order => "post_comments.created_at DESC") --- But then I get the following generated sql query on my log which is not what I am thriving to do: --- SELECT `post_comments`.`id` AS t0_r0, `post_comments`.`user_id` AS t0_r1, `post_comments`.`post_id` AS t0_r2, `post_comments`.`comment` AS t0_r3, `post_comments`.`created_at` AS t0_r4, `post_comments`.`updated_at` AS t0_r5, `users`.`id` AS t1_r0, `users`.`email` AS t1_r1, `users`.`crypted_password` AS t1_r2, `users`.`salt` AS t1_r3, `users`.`name` AS t1_r4, `users`.`lastname` AS t1_r5, `users`.`gender` AS t1_r6, `users`.`zipcode` AS t1_r7, `users`.`birthday` AS t1_r8, `users`.`remember_token` AS t1_r9, `users`.`remember_token_expires_at` AS t1_r10, `users`.`activation_code` AS t1_r11, `users`.`activated_at` AS t1_r12, `users`.`created_at` AS t1_r13, `users`.`updated_at` AS t1_r14, `users`.`neighborhood_id` AS t1_r15, `users`.`photo_file_name` AS t1_r16, `users`.`photo_content_type` AS t1_r17, `users`.`photo_file_size` AS t1_r18, `users`.`status_message` AS t1_r19, `users`.`status_update` AS t1_r20 FROM post_comments LEFT OUTER JOIN `users` ON `users`.id = `post_comments`.user_id INNER JOIN posts ON posts.id = post_comments.post_id WHERE (posts.neighborhood_id = 1 AND post_comments.created_at >= ''2008-07-19 02:52:10'') ORDER BY post_comments.created_at DESC --- What do I am doing wrong? Any help or advice? Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---