ActiveRecord Join Query and select in Rails

Question

In my rails 4 application, a client (clients table) can have many projects (projects table). I have a column called name in each table. I am trying to write a

Answer 1

You can use :'clients.name' as one of your symbols. For instance:

Project.select(:id, :name, :'clients.name').joins(:client)

I like it better because it seems like Rails understands it, since it quotes all parameters:

SELECT "projects"."id", "projects"."name", "clients"."name"
FROM "projects"
INNER JOIN "clients" ON "clients"."id" = "projects"."client_id"

(I'm not 100% sure that's the exact SQL query, but I'm fairly certain and I promise it will use "clients"."name")