I have a table containing about 30k rows of data and there's several table associations. The problem is that there's like 18 columns, and each column requires 1 db query. Here's an example of what I'm doing: if col_num == 0 tmp_string_text = finding_phase elsif col_num == 1 tmp_string_text = "" elsif col_num == 2 tmp_string_text = "" elsif col_num == 3 tmp_string_text = finding.vuln_finding.severity elsif col_num == 4 tmp_string_text = finding.node.ip elsif col_num == 5 tmp_string_text = finding.node.host_name elsif col_num == 6 tmp_string_text = finding.node.dns_name elsif col_num == 7 tmp_string_text = finding.port elsif col_num == 8 tmp_string_text = finding.pentest_finding.name elsif col_num == 9 tmp_string_text = finding.vuln_finding.name elsif col_num == 10 tmp_string_text = finding.vuln_finding.description elsif col_num == 11 tmp_string_text = finding.vuln_finding.solution elsif col_num == 12 tmp_string_text = finding.additional_output elsif col_num == 13 tmp_string_text = finding.cve elsif col_num == 14 tmp_string_text = finding.node.os elsif col_num == 15 tmp_string_text = finding.node.device_type elsif col_num == 16 tmp_string_text = finding.node.scan_time end As a result, there's going to be 15 queries to the DB per 1 row. Is there any way that I can make this more efficient? This takes a REALLY long time when I have 30k rows. Not looking for anyone to flame here, just looking for advice. Pretty new to Ruby on Rails but learning as I go. *** EDIT *** So basically, "finding" in this case is a result of @my_report.findings and it's going through each finding and pulling back data.