Rails 6 adds ActiveRecord::Relation#extract_associated

Taha Husain

By Taha Husain

on April 17, 2019

This blog is part of our  Rails 6 series.

Before Rails 6, if we want to extract associated records from an ActiveRecord::Relation, we would use preload and collect.

For example, we want to fetch subscriptions of some users. The query would look as shown below.

Rails 5.2

1User.where(blocked: false).preload(:subscriptions).collect(&:subscriptions)
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3=> # returns collection of subscription records

ActiveRecord::Relation#extract_associated provides a shorthand to achieve same result and is more readable than former.

Rails 6.0.0.beta3

1User.where(blocked: false).extract_associated(:subscriptions)
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3=> # returns the same collection of subscription records

Here's the relevant pull request for this change.

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