On 17 June 2014 13:34, Ronald Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > I have in my model > > class Card < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :idioms, dependent: :destroy > end > > class Idiom < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :card > end > > In my schema, Idiom has an integer column kind. Given a certain card, I > would like to have all associated idioms, but sorted in descending order > according to the 'kind' column. > > I could do a > > @card.idioms.sort { .... } > > but would prefer doing the sorting by the time the data is retrieved > from the database. I googled two suggestions: > > (1) @card.idioms(:order => 'kind DESC') > > This doesn't seem to have any effect.
What do you mean by not having any effect? It did not find anything, or they were not sorted correctly? If you have a look in log/development.log you will see the query being run and check that it looks ok. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLuBjaezUUz5%3Dtw_SKY83wUNNG9nkybvFPZK2RKbK2Ok5g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
