Rails: include related object in JSON output

Question

I have a note class that belongs to a user (ie a user can create many notes).

clip from my notes controller

class NotesController < ApplicationControl         


        

Answer 1

Would it be possible to do it the other way around?

def index
  @user = User.includes(:notes).order("created_at DESC")
  respond_with @user
end

It would be expensive to include user objects each time the @notes is iterated.