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#1

I have a Person model and a Phone model.

A person can have any number of phones.

A phone has two attributes: type and number.

A phone type could be any of the followings:
Home
Work
Mobile
Fax
Other

A person can have multiple records of home phones or any other phone
type.

While displaying the phones this is what I am doing.

<% @phones.group_by(&:type).sort.each do |type, phones| %>
<%= render :partial => 'phone, :collection => @phones %>

<% end %>

But the problem is that it is returning phone numebers in the following
order:
Fax
Home
Mobile
Office
Work

I want the phone numbers to be displayed in the following order:
Work
Mobile
Home
Fax
Other

What’s the best way to achieve that?

#2

On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Neeraj K. wrote:

Fax
<% end %>
I want the phone numbers to be displayed in the following order:
Work
Mobile
Home
Fax
Other

What’s the best way to achieve that?

“Best”, Hmm, don’t know, but here’s what I’ve done for similar
reasons (mapped into your domain):

class Phone
SORT_ORDER = %w[ Work Mobile Home Fax Other ]

def self.pos phone_type=‘Other’
SORT_ORDER.index(phone_type)
end
end

<% @phones.group_by(&:type).sort_by {|k,v| Phone.pos(k) }.each do |
type, phones| %>
<%= render :partial => ‘phone’, :collection => phones %>

<% end %>

(I fixed what looked like two typos in the render line as well:
missing ’ and the collection from the block variable.)

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
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