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Hi all, if I have a has_many and belongs_to relations like this category has many articles article belongs to category is there a way I can specify the order of articles when pulling them up with @some_category.articles ? Many thanks in advance! -- Nicky

Hello, I have table called ''listings.'' There are a certain combination of properties which make a listing viewable (e.g., it is confirmed, has been authorized, hasn''t expired, etc.). Each listing has one and only one category. I want to be able to do things like Listing.find_viewable(...) and Category.find(...).viewable_listings, but I see no way to do this

I was able to create a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship for my app, but now I''m not too sure how to write queries for it. Basically, I have a table ''courses'' that has_and_belongs_to_many ''categories'' and vice versa So I''m trying to figure out how I would find only the courses that belong to a category that I specify. Let''s

I see in the new Agile Rails 2nd edition that components are going out of style? Is this so? has anybody abandoned the idea of components for helpers? Specifically I''m considering a menu sytem for a website that depends heavily on the users permissions to decide which menu options a user would need to see. I thought that components, since they have the logic in the controller and