My app includes myriads of calculated columns. I prefer SQL views that 
include these calculated columns so Rails / Hobo don't need to know about 
that detail.

Am Freitag, 17. August 2012 22:34:58 UTC+2 schrieb Mike:
>
> Sorting on a calculated column in table-plus is quite annoying.  I have 
> searched for answers - and I haven't been able to find one....has anyone 
> else?
>
> So here is my solution, not DRY, but it works.  It is based on the idea 
> that someone suggested for creating a view - but I wanted to define it in 
> the app itself.
>  ---
>
> In the model, where you have defined the variable like
>
>> def mycolumn
>
>   one_column - two_column
>
> end 
>
>
> you can add a named_scope and inject sql like
>
>> named_scope :specialscope, {
>
> :select => "mymodels.*, (mymodels.one_column - mymodels.two_column) as 
>> mycolumn"
>
>   } 
>
>
> and then in your controller you just add the named scope, and table-plus 
> sorting options....
>
>>   def index 
>>     hobo_index Mymodel.specialscope.apply_scopes(:search    => 
>> [params[:search], :blah1, :blah2], :order_by  => 
>> parse_sort_param(:mycolumn, :name))
>>   end  
>
>
> magic! it works!
>
>  what do you guys think?  is this really bad for performance etc?  
>

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