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2006 Feb 19
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how would you implement this normalizer?
...e other way aroud. I am only sorting for views, so it would be OK to do some normalization on-the-fly on Ruby land, and since the same criteria has to be used throughout the application I was thinking on some sort of generator whose usage would be: class User < ActiveRecord::Base normalize_for_sorting :surname end The intention is not to modify surname, we need it in the views, normalize_for_sroting would generate a method User#surname_for_sorting and configure it as a creation/finding filter that applies the necessary tr///. The aim is: * We normalize the strings once and store th...