items.last is most recent?

rubyonrails-talk
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If a model :has_many :items, can I rely on items.last being the most recently created Item? Or is this just a really bad idea?

Thanks, -george

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The ideal way to do this is the have the timestamp data in the database. Then do an model.items.find(:first, :order => "created_at DESC").

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If a model :has_many :items, can I rely on items.last being the most recently created Item? Or is this just a really bad idea?

Bad idea unless you add an :order => 'created_at' to that :has_many.

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Thanks. I didn't know that could be done.

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And in Rails 2.1, it’s easier

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base named_scope :latest, :limit => 1, :order => “created_at DESC” end

@latest = Article.latest