Figured this out after a lot of monkeying-around (I mean script/console).

Situation:

• I have two tables (Revisions has_many Inputs)
• I can load Revisions and then for each I can find Inputs, but quickly found out that for my situation, it leads to a lot of queries. So I want to load the required fields from both tables together

:joins is the only way to do this, using :includes does NOT respect the select clause. Here is the gist I created:

Admittedly, this is hacky, too hacky for my comfort. Comment/suggest a better/cleaner solution?

Note: Found out that there is a gem to do this: ar-select-with-include

I got a Amazon Kindle DX for a birthday gift! Thanks Ujwala!

And so far I am loving it. It’s better to read on compared to Kindle 1 (which, BTW, Ujwala had gifted to me last year) – and the native PDF support (and the search-anywhere) is awesome! The experimental browser that comes with the DX is much much improved compared to Kindle 1st Gen.

So I was reading more about Rails Routing in the rails-guides. And while I was in the bus today morning I wanted to read that on the Kindle (coz it is a pleasure to read on it). So I fired up the guides page on the experimental browser – it works, but reading a PDF or a Kindle-formatted book is so much better.

So I got this simple idea. Print the web page as a PDF and e-mail it to your Kindle. Here’s what I did:

1. Go to the site
2. Print – (PDF format “saved to file” instead of sending it to a printer). I was on Linux – Mac also has the “Print to PDF/PS support by default, for Windows you’ll need to get CutePDF installed)
3. e-mail it to your Kindle address (I also uploaded it to my dropbox – so I can get it later on) and you are done!

(BTW, dropbox is an amazing thing – if you use multiple computers/OS, you have to try this thing. If you are going to try it out (for free), help me out – use my Dropbox referral link)

So there you go – another easy way to get web-content for free on your Kindle. Go on enjoy the book now.

Blog-Notes

• Amazon Kindle DX
• Rails Guides – excellent info on the RubyOnRails framework
• CutePDF
• DropBox