Question

I’m having trouble sorting a single-column table in Rails. Each row represents a single object (an article) and contains all of its attributes (name, content, created_at, user, etc.). The search function works fine (Article.where) but I can’t seem to sort the table by any attributes, i.e. Article.order('attribute'). The default, which I can’t change, is created_at desc. Am I overlooking something?

Here is my controller:

def index
   @title="Home"
   if params[:search]
      @search=params[:search]
      @articles=Article.where('name LIKE ? OR category LIKE ?', "%#{params[:search]}%", "%#{params[:search]}%").paginate(:per_page => 15, :page => params[:page]) 
   else
      @articles=Article.order('name').paginate(:per_page => 15, :page => params[:page])
   end
end

And view:

<table> 
    <%= render @articles%>
</table>

<%= will_paginate @articles, :previous_label => "Prev", :next_label => "Next" %> 

Answer 1

Use reorder to override any default ordering.

Article.reorder('name').paginate(:per_page => 15, :page => params[:page])