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2006 Mar 30
2
acts_as_ordered plugin
...sted.
Install:
script/plugin install
http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/acts_as_ordered
Usage:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_ordered :order => ''first_name''
end
Say you have people with first names of Adam, Jonathan and Robert:
p = Person.find_by_first_name(''Jonathan'')
p.next # Robert
p.previous # Adam
p.previous.previous # Adam (does not wrap around to end)
p.next.next # Robert (does not wrap around to start)
If you want the next and previous methods to wrap around the ends, use:
acts_as_...
2006 Jan 19
0
Help with nested HABTM relationship
...key => "prospect_list_id"
22 has_and_belongs_to_many :accounts,
23 :join_table => "accounts_contacts",
24 :foreign_key => "contact_id",
25 :association_foreign_key => "account_id"
26 end
27
28 me = Contact.find_by_first_name("Siros")
29 print me.last_name
30 me.accounts.each do |company|
31 puts company.name
32 end
33 # => "JohnsonIBM"
34
35
36 mailing = Prospect_list.find_by_name("Hot Leads")
37 mailing.contacts.each do |person|
38 pu...
2006 Jan 30
0
Making sense of all the search options
...;%" + session[:q] + "%",
"%" + session[:q] + "%" ], :order => ''username ASC''
What I need is one search function that does this by default, but also
allows me to search each value independently.
I''d love to use a find_by_first_name() finder, but these are all
"like" searches, which isn''t supported in that fashion. This all ends
up looking pretty ugly in the code.
So, on to some gems and other add-ons.
* Ferret looks awesome, but overkill for this purpose.
* SearchGenerator might do it, but all I need i...