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I am trying out ROR for the first time[1], and have much PHP poisoning to overcome in my mental baggage. That said, I was delighted to find that I could make a link from a "show" page to the next record in the database by simply adding @next_page = Content.find(params["id"].next) to my content_controller.rb and then constructing a link to it within my show.rhtml. The

right now i''m adding an item to my ''list'' but i''m unsure how to move it to a certain spot in the list. specifically i want to put it at the bottom of the list. i assumed that if i did something like parent.children << new_child then the ''position'' field in the child table would be given some sensible default by rails but instead