named_scope or find_by_sql?

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Published on 2010-05-02T04:56:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 5:07 UTC
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I have three models:

User
Award
Trophy

The associations are:

User has many awards
Trophy has many awards
Award belongs to user
Award belongs to trophy
User has many trophies through awards

Therefore, user_id is a fk in awards, and trophy_id is a fk in awards.

In the Trophy model, which is an STI model, there's a trophy_type column. I want to return a list of users who have been awarded a specific trophy -- (trophy_type = 'GoldTrophy'). Users can be awarded the same trophy more than once. (I don't want distinct results.)

Can I use a named_scope? How about chaining them? Or do I need to use find_by_sql? Either way, how would I code it?

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