Question

I’m trying to join two tables and return all columns, not just the ones associated with the model.

I have something like that looks like this:

Comment.joins(:user).select("*")

The SQL looks fine, but still, it only returns the comments and none of the user info associated with it.

How can I retrieve * and not just comments.*?

Answer 1

What about

comments = Comment.includes(:user).all

Now comments is going to be an array so you’ll have to loop through it to see all the users.

#won't work
comments.user 

#should work
comments[0].user

comments.each do |comment|
    puts comment.user.name #or whatever
end