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Let me pose a typical Rails situation:

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_one :fancy_hat
end
 
class FancyHat < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :person
end

Now, how can you get all the people that don’t have a fancy hat?

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_one :fancy_hat
 
  named_scope :hatless, :joins => 'LEFT JOIN fancy_hats ON fancy_hats.person_id = people.id', :conditions => 'fancy_hats.person_id IS NULL'
end

Now you can find all the hatless people you want.

FYI: Finding fancy hats that have no one to wear them is a lot easier, because the foreign key is stored in the fancy_hats table.

class FancyHat < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :person
 
  named_scope :wearerless, :conditions => { :person_id => nil }
end

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