When you do tags with acts-as-taggable-on Show archive.org snapshot and want to preload associated tags, you can do so with

TaggedModel.scoped(:include => :tag)

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Note however that this will only prevent tagged_model.tags from hitting the database. Using tagged_model.tag_list does not use the preloaded association.