Paginate with :order AND :include?

Rails
1

My two goals:

  1. display last 10 posts in reverse chronological order
  2. link to the author without hitting the database 2n-1 times

These work:
def list
@post_pages, @posts = paginate :posts, :order => “created_at DESC”,
:per_page => 10
end

def list
@post_pages, @posts = paginate :posts, :per_page => 10, :include =>
:person
end

This doesn’t:
def list
@post_pages, @posts = paginate :posts, :order => “created_at DESC”,
:per_page => 10, :include => :person
end

I get a “Column ‘created_at’ in order clause is ambiguous” error. I’m
not sure but I thought it was be possible to order the posts and then
join the person table. Otherwise I will hit the database with each
post. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks in advance!

2

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 03:45 +0100, Taylor S. wrote:

def list
I get a “Column ‘created_at’ in order clause is ambiguous” error. I’m
not sure but I thought it was be possible to order the posts and then
join the person table. Otherwise I will hit the database with each
post. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks in advance!

def list
@post_pages, @posts = paginate :posts,
:order => ‘posts.created_at DESC’
:per_page => 10,
:include => :person
end

To clarify ambiguity with two tables that have the same column name, you
clarify which table to which you are referring.

Craig

3

Worked great. Thanks!