Avoiding the N+1 Query Problem in Rails

A very common query optimization case with a solution that’s also easy on the eyes

Usama Ashraf
Dev Genius
Published in
3 min readJun 11, 2021

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The n+1 query problem is one of the most common scalability bottlenecks. It involves fetching a list of resources from a database that includes other associated resources within them. This means that we might have to query for the associated resources…

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