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Chinasaur

Rails 2.0.2 Bug: belongs_to association reader fails to call loaded on bad foreign keys

Reported by Chinasaur | March 9th, 2009 @ 08:25 PM | in 3.x

Hi, first time submitting a bug.

In at least Rails 2.0.2 through 2.3.2, belongs_to association_reader fails to call association.loaded on bad foreign keys. So for example:


class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :company
end

c1 = Contact.new(:company_id => 1)          # This exists
c2 = Contact.new(:company_id => 9287123987) # This doesn't exist

Benchmark.bm do |x|
  x.report {500.times do; c1.company; end}
  x.report {500.times do; c2.company; end}
end

Gives result:
      user     system      total        real
  0.015000   0.000000   0.015000 (  0.035000)
  0.671000   0.359000   1.030000 (  1.224000)

Of course, c2.company is nil, but c2.company should call association.loaded so that we don't go to the database 500 times to find nil 500 times.

I'm not sure where the call to association.loaded should come. Let me know if you need more information. Let me know if this has already been fixed.

Thanks!


Results on 2.2.2; still seems to be an issue:


r1 = Recipe.new(:category_id => 1)          # This exists
r2 = Recipe.new(:category_id => 9287123987) # This doesn't exist

Benchmark.bm do |x|
  x.report {1000.times do; r1.category; end}
  x.report {1000.times do; r2.category; end}
  x.report {1000.times do; r1.category(true); end}
  x.report {1000.times do; r2.category(true); end}
end

      user     system      total        real
  0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000000)
  0.514000   0.203000   0.717000 (  0.717000)
  0.578000   0.234000   0.812000 (  0.843000)
  0.546000   0.156000   0.702000 (  0.702000)

Results on 2.3.2; still seems to be an issue:


      user     system      total        real
  0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.000000)
  0.531000   0.218000   0.749000 (  0.749000)
  0.671000   0.203000   0.874000 (  0.874000)
  0.592000   0.141000   0.733000 (  0.795000)

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Chinasaur

    Chinasaur March 9th, 2009 @ 08:34 PM

    • Assigned user set to “Frederick Cheung”

    Though FC might be the person for this...

  • Chinasaur

    Chinasaur March 13th, 2009 @ 02:35 PM

    • Tag changed from active_record, associations, reload to active_record, associations, bugs, reload

    Checked on 2.2.2 and it is still slow, although seems a bit better.

  • Ryan Bigg

    Ryan Bigg April 29th, 2010 @ 10:30 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “open”
    • Assigned user changed from “Frederick Cheung” to “Pratik”
  • Jeremy Kemper

    Jeremy Kemper May 4th, 2010 @ 06:48 PM

    • Milestone changed from 2.x to 3.x
  • Santiago Pastorino

    Santiago Pastorino February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:53 PM

    • Importance changed from “” to “”

    This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not been commented on for at least three months.

    The resources of the Rails core team are limited, and so we are asking for your help. If you can still reproduce this error on the 3-0-stable branch or on master, please reply with all of the information you have about it and add "[state:open]" to your comment. This will reopen the ticket for review. Likewise, if you feel that this is a very important feature for Rails to include, please reply with your explanation so we can consider it.

    Thank you for all your contributions, and we hope you will understand this step to focus our efforts where they are most helpful.

  • Santiago Pastorino

    Santiago Pastorino February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:53 PM

    • State changed from “open” to “stale”

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