Eric Farkas

I've used authlogic for authentication and session management on a number of projects. For one application, I wanted to eager-load an association at the time of a successful sign-in. I thought it'd be helpful to demonstrate the code here, since it took some digging through the documentation and other examples to figure out how to accomplish this.

Basically you want to create a new session within a with_scope block, and pass a find_options hash with whatever options you need. Here's the create action in the UserSessions controller:

class UserSessionsController < ApplicationController
  
  def create
    UserSession.with_scope(:find_options => {:include => :photos}) do
      @user_session = UserSession.new(params[:user_session])
    end
    if @user_session.save
      flash[:notice] = "Login successful!"
      redirect_back_or_default account_url
    else
      render :action => :new
    end
  end
end

See Also

authlogic documentation