Getting Started with Ruby on Rails Blog: Basic Setup Guide

Preface

Are you floundering to sort your blog posts in a specific order in your Ruby on Rails operation? Sorting blog posts can be a useful point to help druggies find the most applicable content fluently. In this tutorial, we will go through a step- by- step companion on how to sort blog posts in a specific order using Ruby on Rails.

Sorting Blog Posts by Date

The most common way to sort blog posts is by date. We can fluently achieve this by adding acreated_at column to our posts table and using the order system in our indicator action in theposts_controller. rb train. Then is an example code snippet

def index
  @posts = Post.order(created_at: :desc)
end

This law will sort the posts in descending order by their creation date. You can also sort the posts in thrusting order by changing desc to asc.

Sorting Blog Posts by Category

Another way to sort blog posts is by order. We can achieve this by creating a orders table and ahas_many association with our posts table. also, we can use the locality system to filter the posts by order in our indicator action. Then is an example code snippet

# posts_controller.rb
def index
  if params[:category].blank?
    @posts = Post.all
  else
    @category_id = Category.find_by(name: params[:category]).id
    @posts = Post.where(category_id: @category_id)
  end
end

# categories_controller.rb
def show
  @category = Category.find(params[:id])
  @posts = @category.posts.order(created_at: :desc)
end

This law will allow druggies to sludge the posts by order using the params( order) parameter in the URL.

Sorting Blog Posts by Fashionability

Sorting blog posts by fashionability can be useful to punctuate the most popular content on your website. We can achieve this by creating a likes table and ahas_many association with our posts table. also, we can use the joins system to join the likes table with our posts table and count the number of likes for each post. Then is an example code snippet

def index
  @posts = Post.joins(:likes).group(:id).order('COUNT(likes.id) DESC')
end

This law will sort the posts by the number of likes they've in descending order.

Conclusion

Sorting blog posts can be a useful point to enhance stoner experience in your Ruby on Rails operation. In this tutorial, we've gone through three different ways to sort blog posts by date, by order, and by fashionability. Feel free to use these styles or combine them to suit your specific requirements.