How to find the most recent associations created between two objects with Rails?

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Published on 2010-03-16T16:30:46Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 17:11 UTC
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Hi,

I have a user model, a movie model and this association in user.rb (I use has_many :through because there are other associations between these two models):

has_many :has_seens
has_many :movies_seen, :through => :has_seens, :source => :movie

I'm trying to get an array of the ten most recent has_seens associations created.

For now, the only solution I found is to crawl through all the users, creating an array with every user.has_seens found, then sort the array by has_seen.created_at and only keep the last 10 items… Seems like a heavy operation.

Is there a better way?

Kevin

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