Re: Generating a Grouped Output

Craig Demyanovich
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:41:03 -0000

Sorry for the font size weirdness in my reply (or is it only showing for
me?).

On 10/8/07, Craig Demyanovich
<cdemyanovich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Welcome, Martin.
>
> The Rails API docs <http://api.rubyonrails.org> show that
>
ActiveRecord::Base#find<http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M001004>can
take a :group option to do what you want. For example,
>
> Game.find(:all, :group => "system")
>
> Craig
>
> On 10/8/07, Martin Austin
<mraustin82-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi all, first time poster.
> >
> > I am currently learning RoR, and have run into a snag.  I have a table
> > called Games that has several fields, including title, desc, genre,
> > system, etc.  What I am looking to do in a view is create an output
> > that is grouped by system.  For example...
> >
> > Wii
> > ... Wii Sports
> > ... Metroid Prime 3
> > Xbox 360
> > ... Halo 3
> >
> > My first thought was to use nested for loops, looping through each
> > unique system, and then looping through each game that matches that
> > system, and while I know how to do this in PHP (using procedural
> > code), I am struggling with how to contain my iteration objects within
> > the controller, and access them only in the view.
> >
> > Any thoughts?  I hope I am explaining this well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
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