Rails - Jun 2005 - ordering through associations?

Is it possible to do an ordering when accessing via an association?  

For example, I have a habtm between Foo and Bar.  I want to do
something like this:

foo = Foo.find( 1 )
bar_list = foo.bars( :order => "created_on" )

But the above doesn''t work.  Is there another way to accomplish this?
Or will I have to do a:

bar_list.sort!{ |x,y| x.created_on <=> y.created_on } 

Thanks.

Matt

Belorion wrote:
>Is it possible to do an ordering when accessing via an association?  
>
>For example, I have a habtm between Foo and Bar.  I want to do
>something like this:
>
>foo = Foo.find( 1 )
>bar_list = foo.bars( :order => "created_on" )
>  
>
Use eager associations:

foo = Foo.find 1, :include => [:bars], order => ''bars.created_on
ASC''

-Matt

well i have the following...

has_many :published_links, { :order => ''lower(name)'',
:class_name =>
''Link'', :conditions => ''publish = true'' }

that does ordering via an association...

Belorion wrote:
>Is it possible to do an ordering when accessing via an association?  
>
>For example, I have a habtm between Foo and Bar.  I want to do
>something like this:
>
>foo = Foo.find( 1 )
>bar_list = foo.bars( :order => "created_on" )
>
>But the above doesn''t work.  Is there another way to accomplish
this?
>Or will I have to do a:
>
>bar_list.sort!{ |x,y| x.created_on <=> y.created_on } 
>
>Thanks.
>
>Matt
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