Rails - Apr 2006 - Grouping a list of links by category

Hi,

I want to display a list of links grouped by category like this:
Group 1
 Link 1
 Link 2
Group 2
 Link 1
 Link 2

I have this in my controller:
  def index
    @links = Link.find(:all, :order => "category_id")
  end

And this in the view:
   <ul>
    <% for link in @links %>
    <li>
     <a href="<%= link.url %>"><%= link.link
%></a>
    </li>
    <% end %>
   </ul>

Can somebody give my some pointers how to achieve this?
Thanks!

Maarten

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Maarten,

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:30:51PM +0200, Maarten Hendrikx wrote:
  
> I want to display a list of links grouped by category like this:
> Group 1
>  Link 1
>  Link 2
> Group 2
>  Link 1
>  Link 2
What a coinsidence.  I just set up a similar link section yesterday.  
> Can somebody give my some pointers how to achieve this?  Thanks!
I''m very new to Rails so there it is very likely that there is a better
way
to do this.  But, the way I did it was:

In my Link controller:

    def list
        @categories = LinkCategory.find(:all, :order =>
''name'')
    end

And in my list.rhtml view something along the lines of:

<% for category in @categories -%>

    <h2><%= h(category.name) %></h2>

    <% for link in category.links -%>

        <p><%= link_to h(link.name), link.url %></p>

    <% end -%>

 <% end -%>




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