Rails - Jun 2010 - How can I retrieve the object on an association without going through the database?

Consider the following setup:

class Parent < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :children
end

class Child < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :parent
end

And this console session:
>> p = Parent.find 41
>> p.some_attr = ''some_value''
>> c = p.children.build
>> c.parent
By watching my log files, I can see that c.parent is querying the db
for the parent object. I want instead to access the existing in-memory
object (p), because I need access to the parent''s some_attr value,
which is not yet stored in the database. Is there any way of doing
this? c.parent(force_reload=false) doesn''t get me there.

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are you using rails 3?

If you are I think you just do

p = Parent.includes(:children).find(41)
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