Matt,
You could do a sort like this:
<% for album in artist.albums.sort_by{ |a| a.release_date } %>
or better yet look at adjusting your has_many call to:
has_many :albums, :order => 'release_date'
Hope this helps.
Matt,
I don't understand exactly what you want here... if we have two artists with release dates like this:
Artist 1 has albums with release_dates of 1/1/06, 3/1/06, 5/1/06 Artist 2 has albums with release_dates of 2/1/06, 4/1/06
then <% for artist in @artists %> won't work because they have releases that stagger. What you want to do if the primary sort is release date is something like the following:
@albums = Album.find(:all, :include => :artist, :order => 'release_date')
then
<% for album in @albums -%> <%= album.release_date.strftime(...) %> - <%= album.artist.name %> <% end -%>
Does that make sense?
