ordering by join table - is this possible?

Hey all

Suppose Post has many comments.

Is it possible to call Post.all and order them by the number of comments each has without adding a column 'comments_count' to the Post table?

If not, can anyone think of a nicer way of doing it this than:

def Post.order_by_comments   posts = Post.all   post_hash = {}   posts.each { |post| post_hash[post.id] = post.comments.count }   sorted_posts = posts.sort {|a,b| a[1]<=>b[1] } # =>sorts by keys   ids = sorted_posts.collect(&:first) # => collects the post ids   ids.reverse! # =>sorts the ids from most comments to least end

^^ I should add

Is it possible to do this in one SQL query?

Thanks