Separate rows in view depending its date

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Hi,

I would like to hear your opinions about how do you think I can

implement this.

I have a @events array where I have events each one with its datetime,

and ordered by it.

I would like to show a list of these events in a table. I would like to

put a blank row in the table after each group of events with the same

date.

I don’t know if it is better to separate the events in groups in the

controller or if I can use an ‘if’ in the view to insert this blank row.

I would suggest this is to do with how you want to view the data, it is not inherent in the data itself, so it should go in the view.

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Ok. That makes sense to me. Can I store values in variables in the view? I think it would be possible by storing the datetime of the previous event and comparing it with the current event datetime. I think what I want to do is similar to pagination...

Colin Law wrote:

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You can write pretty much any ruby in the view, local vars are no problem. I feel there may be an elegant way to skip a row or otherwise leave a gap on date change but at the moment it escapes me. Any suggestions from those with more experience?

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CSS. Wrap each date-group in a <div class='whatever'> and style it with a top/bottom margin to get the spacing you're looking for.

HTH, Bill

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What I do not see is how to build those 'date-groups' because what I have now is only @events = Event.find(:all, :order => 'date')

In the view I do:

<%= for event in @events %> [...]

bill walton wrote: