ActiveRecord association scoping pitfalls

FiXato posted a link to weblog.jamisbuck.org and tagged it with associations, RoR, ruby_on_rails, RubyOnRails, rails, ActiveRecord, scope, scoping

\"ActiveRecord’s associations let you specify just about every option that ActiveRecord#find accepts. Want your account’s people returned in sorted order? Just specify ”:order => ‘name’” in the association. [..]\r\nSo, what are your options? I would recommend doing like I’ve discussed in other articles, and like Koz and I have pointed out on The Rails Way: either set up a separate association that includes the sorts and includes, or use an extension method. Then, you can use the unadorned version of the association to do your scoped queries safely and efficiently, having a much better idea of what they are going to be doing to your database.\"