No that's great news!!  I don't care about the order, excellent, I'll
give it a shot right away.  But I am assuming I won't be able to
reference the fields within by their return name?   Like <view:row-
count> if my query contained something like select x, y, row_count...?

On Dec 2, 9:50 am, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Tuishimi wrote:
>
> > I'm not very clear.  I am sorry.  Here is what I am thinking:
>
> > 1. create a method (we'll call it summary_of_errors) on object [X]
> > that performs some straight sql on my data that provides a summary of
> > error_names and how many times that error occurred.
>
> > 2. add a <repeat attr="summary_of_errors">
> > 3. in that repeat, generate a table against that data
>
> > But since this is a combination of data not really modeled, is that a
> > problem?
>
> The repeat tag will take pretty much anything that's "Array-like"; you can 
> even repeat on a hash and you'll get values in 'this' and corresponding keys 
> in 'this_key'. The only issue with that is there's no guarantee what order 
> the keys come out.
>
> For an example, here's a page that uses a repeat on a bare array:
>
> http://www.oab.org/jobs/job_postings
>
> In the controller, this happens:
>
> @job_postings = JobPosting.visible.jobs.group_by { |j| j.category }
>
> Then in the view I repeat on the sorted keys of the @job_postings hash, since 
> they need to be presented in alphabetical order.
>
> --Matt Jones

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