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

Try this code:

Author
  .includes(:articles).where(published: true).references(:articles)
  .find(params[:author_id])

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