Rails includes with scope

Question

I have a model called Author. An author has many Articles. Articles have a scope called .published that does: where(published: true).

I want to load the author, with the

Answer 1

I would specify a scope on the Author called with_published_articles like this:

scope :with_published_articles, -> { joins(:articles).merge(Article.published) }

This will resolve your problem to also specify the where(active: true) on your Author model in case the published behaviour of and Article will change in the future.

So now you can call:

Author.with_published_articles.find(params[:author_id])