:order question

ok so I am trying to do something like the below to order by :joins (I
know the below won’t work)…the only solution that I can fathom is
using something like find_by_sql - but I certainly would prefer a
simpler method…any suggestions?

User.find(:all, :joins => :deals, :group => ‘rev’, :conditions =>
[‘saledate >= ? AND saledate <= ?’, Time.now.at_beginning_of_month,
Time.now.at_end_of_month], :order => “deals.rev.sum DESC”)

Thanks

Sean

On Mar 11, 10:30 pm, esdevs [email protected] wrote:

ok so I am trying to do something like the below to order by :joins (I
know the below won’t work)…the only solution that I can fathom is
using something like find_by_sql - but I certainly would prefer a
simpler method…any suggestions?

User.find(:all, :joins => :deals, :group => ‘rev’, :conditions =>
[‘saledate >= ? AND saledate <= ?’, Time.now.at_beginning_of_month,
Time.now.at_end_of_month], :order => “deals.rev.sum DESC”)

I’m not entirely sure what you’re doing - :order has to be a valid sql
order clause, so order by any column from any of your joined tables,
or an sql expression is fine (:eg :order => “SUM(something)” should be
ok, although you might need the expression in your order clause to be
part of the select clause too).

Fred

so to clarify - I am trying to order by the sum of the items in a
column in a joined table between a certain date range.

On Mar 11, 7:06 pm, Frederick C. [email protected]