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Eager Loading (revised)

#22 Eager Loading (revised)

Mar 20, 2013 | 7 minutes | Performance, Active Record
One way to improve performance is to reduce the number of database queries through eager loading. Here I demonstrate this and compare the difference between the "includes" and "joins" methods.
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