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Let''s say I have class Student < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :classes_students has_many :classes, :through => :classes_students end I want the list of classes for each student to be sorted by the class title. I could get an array containing the classes and then sort it. But, I would like for the database to do the work. Is there some combination of :include and :order that

My environment.rb contains config.time_zone = ''UTC'' If my understanding is correct, rails should assume time values coming from the database are UTC, and since config.time_zone is set to ''UTC'', it should not try to convert the times. Instead, rails is assuming that the db values are Eastern (my local zone) and is incorrectly adding four hours to convert to

Ok, I''ll try one more time...I''ve read the book, I''ve searched the docs, I can''t find the answer this puzzle. Surely someone can help! @rs is an array, and I want to have a select field for each item in @rs. How can I do this? The following (which is inside a form_for) does not work: <% for r in @rs %> <% fields_for r do |f| %>

I have tried to get this question answered before with no success. I''m getting desperate! Here is a simplified description of my problem... I have a many-to-many relationship between accounts and employees, with a model table in between called AccountEmployeeRelations. There is other stuff in this table, but I don''t think that matters for now. In the controller I create

What is the syntax to use :confirm with link_to_remote? This doesn''t work, I''ve tried a few permutations, with no success: <%= link_to_remote( "X", :update => ''address_list'', :url => { :controller => ''addresses'', :action => ''destroy'', :id => address },