Yes, in a browser. It's a page where I list these UpdateRequests showing, amongst other things, the name of the Contact for whom the UpdateRequest has been created. And I'd like to be able to have that list of UpdateRequests sorted on the Contact's last_name.
But, this is really also a general question about how to sort on (and how to get at) the attributes of an associated object from a object that joins objects (note that that's what an UpdateRequest does for me here). On Nov 16, 7:36 pm, Conrad Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:02 PM, lunaclaire <[email protected]> wrote: > > > here are my models (only showing the associations that relate to this > > post): > > > class UpdateRequest < ActiveRecord::Base > > belongs_to :user > > belongs_to :contact > > end > > > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > > has_many :update_requests, :dependent => :destroy > > end > > > so I want to be able to list UpdateRequests and sort them based on > > attributes of the referenced Contact in each > > > I cant, for instance, do the following for the User > > > has_many :update_requests, :dependent => :destroy, :order => > > 'contacts.last_name asc' > > > It doesnt know about the 'contacts' table's columns > > > I can do this, right? How? > > > Thx > > How is this to be use? For example, are you displaying this information to > the user within the > browser? > > -Conrad > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
