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Asked: 2026-05-23T00:31:57+00:00

I have 2 models that I am interested in merging and then ordering them

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I have 2 models that I am interested in merging and then ordering them by the created_at column. One of the models is photos and the other one is statuses. Currently, I have two tabs, photos and statuses in which I display each of the model data sepeartely by the time they were created. However, I want to make another tab called photos and statuses, and display them together. My question is how can I display both of them by the time they were created together. For example I would like it to have an order sort of like this

Hell World (status posted 4 hours ago)
<img src="blah/blah" /> (posted 6 hours ago)
Hello (status posted 8 hours ago)

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    There’s probably some slick way to do this in SQL but if you’re only displaying a few records, doing it in Ruby is fine, and readable. Something like:

    @photos = Photo.recent(5)
@images = Image.recent(5)
@both   = (@photos + @images).sort_by(&:created_at).reverse

    If your goal is to display a classic activity feed, I recommend the timeline_fu plugin:

    https://github.com/jamesgolick/timeline_fu

    Very easy to set up, pretty slick.

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