Question

Let’s say I have an app where users could rate books. Tables are users(id), books(id) and rating(user_id, book_id, value). I’ve made these models

class Rating < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :book
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :ratings
end

class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :ratings
end

I want to get a list of all (both rated and unrated) books with their ratings made by current user. It’s easy in SQL with outer join but I can’t figure out a way to do it in Rails 3.

Answer 1

According to LEFT OUTER joins in Rails 3 you’ll have to specify the outer join in SQL…