Hi, give this a try. Not sure it will work, haven't tested it at all, but it might.
class User has_many :update_requests has_many :contacts, :through => :update_requests, :order => 'last_name' end -Tim On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:14 PM, lunaclaire <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > -- Tim Harding Muriwai Technologies Ltd Registered in England & Wales Company number 5800651 Registered office: 2 Church St, Burnham, Bucks, SL1 7HZ Well Informed Ltd Registered in England & Wales Company number 06707839 Registered office: Suite 235, 77 Beak St, London, W1F 9DB --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
