Question

Rails 2.3.5 / Ruby 1.8.6

I have a ‘teams’ table that contains a ‘center’ id (center_id) field (teams belongs to center and center has many teams). In the views, I’m using the name of the center:

Controller (sorting by team 'name':
 @teams= Team.find(:all, :order => "name ASC")
View:
 <%=h team.center.center_name %>

How can I sort the query by the by center name? Like:

@teams= Team.find(:all, :order => "center.center_name ASC name ASC")

I’m not even sure if this is possible… Should I be trying to solve this be adding logic to the “@teams.each do |team|” loop? Or maybe by collecting the query results into a normal array and then sorting the array?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Looks like you’re pretty close. Do you have a ‘centers’ table? If so try:

@teams= Team.find(:all, :include=>:center, :order => "centers.center_name ASC, teams.name ASC")