Comments on: Those Pesky Memory Leaks http://blog.agoragames.com/2008/09/04/those-pesky-memory-leaks/ Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:53:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Josh http://blog.agoragames.com/2008/09/04/those-pesky-memory-leaks/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Josh Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:20:32 +0000 http://blog.agoragames.com/?p=51#comment-35 It's the :include => [...] bit that's forcing the eager loading of the associations. Remove it so that the statement reads: find(:first, :order => "forum_posts.created_at desc") and it'll lazy load those associations for you. On a side note, a cleaner implementation could be accomplished using named scopes (Rails 2.0+): class ForumPost "forum_posts.created_at desc" end It’s the :include => [...] bit that’s forcing the eager loading of the associations. Remove it so that the statement reads:

find(:first, :order => “forum_posts.created_at desc”)

and it’ll lazy load those associations for you.

On a side note, a cleaner implementation could be accomplished using named scopes (Rails 2.0+):

class ForumPost “forum_posts.created_at desc”
end

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