joins(*args) public

Performs a joins on args:

User.joins(:posts)
=> SELECT "users".* FROM "users" INNER JOIN "posts" ON "posts"."user_id" = "users"."id"

You can use strings in order to customize your joins:

User.joins("LEFT JOIN bookmarks ON bookmarks.bookmarkable_type = 'Post' AND bookmarks.user_id = users.id")
=> SELECT "users".* FROM "users" LEFT JOIN bookmarks ON bookmarks.bookmarkable_type = 'Post' AND bookmarks.user_id = users.id
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January 19, 2012 - (v3.0.0 - v3.1.0)
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I came across the following situation An article has a history of friendly url being that the foreign key that represents the value of the article’s id in the table is called Friend url_id then in that case:

Article.joins(“INNER JOIN friends ON articles.id = friends.url_id”).where(“friends.url like ? ”, url)

if the column url_id was renamed for artigo_id would be easier

Article.joins(:friend).where(“friends.url like ? ”, url)