It appears that the :include functionality was changed with Rails 2.1. Rails used to do the join in all cases, but for performance reasons it was changed to use multiple queries in some circumstances. This blog post by Fabio Akita has some good information on the change (see the section entitled “Optimized Eager Loading”).
I have decided to compile this answer because all others seem to be incomplete. config.active_record.default_timezone determines whether to use Time.local (if set to :local) or Time.utc (if set to :utc) when pulling dates and times from the database. The default is :utc. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html If you want to change Rails timezone, but continue to have Active … Read more
There are several approaches : Using ActiveSupport::Concern (Preferred) Read the ActiveSupport::Concern documentation for more details. Create a file called active_record_extension.rb in the lib directory. require ‘active_support/concern’ module ActiveRecordExtension extend ActiveSupport::Concern # add your instance methods here def foo “foo” end # add your static(class) methods here class_methods do #E.g: Order.top_ten def top_ten limit(10) end end … Read more