diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
index 5df8900e7b..a53f57b48f 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Make sure has_many uses :include when counting [danger]
+
 * Change the implementation of ActiveRecord's attribute reader and writer methods [nzkoz]
  - Generate Reader and Writer methods which cache attribute values in hashes.  This is to avoid repeatedly parsing the same date or integer columns.
  - Change exception raised when users use find with :select then try to access a skipped column.  Plugins could override missing_attribute() to lazily load the columns.
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb
index 838eb00863..c40982d738 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
           elsif @reflection.options[:counter_sql]
             @reflection.klass.count_by_sql(@counter_sql)
           else
-            @reflection.klass.count(:conditions => @counter_sql)
+            @reflection.klass.count(:conditions => @counter_sql, :include => @reflection.options[:include])
           end
           
           @target = [] and loaded if count == 0
diff --git a/activerecord/test/associations/eager_test.rb b/activerecord/test/associations/eager_test.rb
index d48821ce0a..114da92542 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/associations/eager_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/associations/eager_test.rb
@@ -271,6 +271,13 @@ class EagerAssociationTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_not_nil f.account
     assert_equal companies(:first_firm, :reload).account, f.account
   end
+  
+  def test_eager_with_multi_table_conditional_properly_counts_the_records_when_using_size
+    author = authors(:david)
+    posts_with_no_comments = author.posts.select { |post| post.comments.blank? }
+    assert_equal posts_with_no_comments.size, author.posts_with_no_comments.size
+    assert_equal posts_with_no_comments, author.posts_with_no_comments
+  end
 
   def test_eager_with_invalid_association_reference
     assert_raises(ActiveRecord::ConfigurationError, "Association was not found; perhaps you misspelled it?  You specified :include => :monkeys") {
diff --git a/activerecord/test/fixtures/author.rb b/activerecord/test/fixtures/author.rb
index 61ba3c1551..fa710bab9c 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/fixtures/author.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/fixtures/author.rb
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   has_many :hello_posts, :class_name => "Post", :conditions => "posts.body = 'hello'"
   has_many :hello_post_comments, :through => :hello_posts, :source => :comments
+  has_many :posts_with_no_comments, :class_name => 'Post', :conditions => 'comments.id is null', :include => :comments
 
   has_many :other_posts,          :class_name => "Post"
   has_many :posts_with_callbacks, :class_name => "Post", :before_add => :log_before_adding,