# Column Sorting

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/column-sorting/196721>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 23, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/column-sorting/196721 "2008-06-23T21:01:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![apneram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@apneram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/apneram)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/column-sorting/196721/1 "2008-06-23T21:01:24Z")

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Hello,

Newbie to rails!!  
I am trying to sort on the column header in my web page. Any suggestions  
what would be the most efficient way to do that?

Thank you for your help

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**Author:** ![apneram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@apneram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/apneram)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/column-sorting/196721/2 "2008-06-24T03:12:24Z")

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Apne Ram wrote:

> I am trying to sort on the column header in my web page. Any suggestions  
> what would be the most efficient way to do that?

Have you considered adding an :order attribute to your find call,  
perhaps something triggered by a params[:order] ?

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)

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**Author:** ![apneram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@apneram](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/apneram)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/column-sorting/196721/3 "2008-06-24T03:12:24Z")

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Hi

check out [http://activescaffold.com](http://activescaffold.com), it might be what you’re looking  
for…

ciao  
gerrit