extend Ambition to ActiveRecord associations

Can you elaborate on this further? I'd be more than happy to have a look at doing the work.

Cheers,

Simon

ActiveRecord associations already support Enumerable methods, but they're useless in large scale apps because the entire collection is loaded, and you could have a collection with thousands of records.

Currently you don't want to write code like "current_user.experiences.size" because of the collection loading. You have to use the special purpose method count. To get "experiences.first(5)" without loading the entire collection you have to use "current_user.experiences.find(:all, :limit => 5)" or a paginator.

But if we change association reader methods to return Ambition query contexts, then running enumerable methods on them doesn't load the entire collection, and we can use associations like normal arrays.

When I filed the ticket I had a semi-working version of this feature, but Ambition has changed alot since then so I doubt it works anymore.

Pretty simple really, I just replaced the contents of the define_method block in collection_reader_method with

reflection.klass.query_context.select { |entity| entity.__send__(reflection.primary_key_name) == quoted_id }

diff attached.