Materialize active record object with included associations

[Alexandru Calinoiu]

Hi

I have a basic active query like so: m = Movie.includes(:genres) `m.genders` is an `CollectionProxy` in this case. Is there a way I can get this as an array? I know that calling to_a will do this, but this becomes impractical for a bunch of includes. The problem that I am having is that when I cache m in redis after fetching it the genres query is done again if I don't iterate the collection. Regards,

[Frederick Cheung]

to_a is the way to do this - why do you say this is impractical?

Fred 

[Elizabeth McGurty]

Try
m = Movie.map(&:genders).includes(:genres)