Question

Is there any way to order a list of items through the controller in rails in index ?

Something like

def index
  @items = Item.all(order_by :date)
end

Answer 1

Of course there is, and in fact, it’s exactly what you said, except your method calls are off.

def index
    @items = Item.order(:date)
end

Your index view (probably index.html.erb) is looking for an @items array, right? Well you can format/order/etc that data however you see fit,no problem!