Re: Is there a way to get a slice of many tables?

Use associations to define your relationships, then use Containable
behavior to limit what data is returned. Easy!

On Oct 3, 8:22 am, Steveston <minghu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For example: a typical university project, I have users, user_courses
> (for instructors), user_enrolls (for students), courses, events (each
> course have one or more events), groups (each event has one or more
> groups), group_members (each group has 1+ members), etc
>
> It is very common for me to get data from all of these tables. While I
> can set association in model to do this, it requires me to do
> associations in many tables and returned data will be large and
> contain lots of fields that I am not interested in.
>
> Is there a way to get a slice of all those tables?
>
> For exmaple:
>
> user_id=1
> user_name=joe
> enrolled course name
> group name
>
> etc.
>
> Thank you,
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