Hello - I'm kind of new to Rails, and although I can usually google the answer to whatever problem I'm having, I'm just not sure how to phrase this, so I come to you all for help.
I'm building an educational app, which (among other things) administers multiple-choice tests to students. I'm staying RESTful, so Test has_many Questions and Question has_many Answers. I started by scaffolding those three, then scrapped all the Question and Answer views. They're included in the Test "show" view, which looks roughly like this: --- <% for question in @test.questions %> (question text) <% for answer in question.answers %> (text for each answer choice) <% end %> <% end %> --- So, I've gotten that to work just fine. Now I'm trying to make both the questions and answers each drag-and-drop sortable, so that questions in a test can be rearranged, and answers in a question rearranged (the latter seems unnecessary and kind of difficult, but I'm trying to work it out in order to challenge myself). I'm following Railscast #147 for this. So I have almost everything set up - I've added the "position" integer to the questions and answers, and the sort function that updates their positions in the database after the drag-and-drop is complete. I've confirmed that those are working. My problem is that when I'm displaying questions and answers, I don't know how to make Rails order them using their positions. On a hunch, I tried changing the view to look like: <% for question in @test.questions(:order => "position") %> ... <% for answer in question.answers(:order => "position") %> ... That doesn't give an error, but it doesn't work either. So, I'm kind of at a loss about how to do this. I could do it the way the Railscast does it, and go into the Test controller and Show action and make: @questions = Question.all(:order => "position") And change the view accordingly, but I wouldn't be able to fix the answers the same way. There must be some kind of Rails Way that I'm missing? Or some bit of syntax? Thoughts? Thank you! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
