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Rails 0.12.0 is out, and with "this release":http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/archives/2005/04/18/rails-0120-eager-associations-new-basefind-api-assertions-revisited-more-ajax/, comes many more benefits to drinking the koolaid.
First is the new "Eager Associations":http://ar.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.html. Prior to this, accessing data from a related object would require N+1 queries — 1 to get the list of objects and another query for each object to get it's related objects. The only [...]