Is date a datetime/date column? Or a string column? If the former, you  
really want to have it as an attribute instead of a field:

   has date

Which makes it implicitly sortable (and it will also function more  
reliably than a string representation of a date).

-- 
Pat

On 31/03/2009, at 7:27 AM, Jeffrey Chupp wrote:

>
> Apologies if this has been covered, but I can't find anything in the
> PDF or the group.
>
> I want to search multiple classes and sort them by a common field
> named 'date'.  On each model I added
>
>  indexes :date, :sortable => true
>
> but whenever i specify :order => 'date DESC' it returns 0 results.  I
> don't see anything in the log files explaining the zero results.
>
> Is this possible to achieve?  What am I doing wrong?
> >


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