Expose joining methods on both requests and associations #539
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This PR is one more stone added on the empowering of constrained extensions to the DerivableRequest protocol. Such extensions are, in spirit, very close to Active Record Scopes. They allow to extend the query language, and reuse code between requests and associations for filtering, ordering, etc.
Joining methods are now available for the DerivableRequest protocol. For example:
Extensions to DerivableRequest are designed to be easily composable. Particularly, joining methods "hidden" in such extensions can freely be composed with other uses of associations, thanks to #422: