Sorting Helper issue

Hi Friends,

    I am very new to RoR. I have now got the pager working for my listing page and was trying to get the sorting to work. However I get this error:

MissingSourceFile in PeopleController#index Missing helper file helpers/sorting_helper.rb RAILS_ROOT: C:/ruby/contact

Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ helpers.rb:127:in `helper' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ helpers.rb:111:in `each' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ helpers.rb:111:in `helper' app/controllers/people_controller.rb:3

  Following is the code in the controller:

  def index     @sorter = SortingHelper::Sorter.new self, %w(name address), @params['sort'], @params['order'], 'name', 'ASC'     @people = Person.search(params[:search], params[:page])   end

following is the code in the view:

<h1>Listing people</h1>

<table>   <tr>     <th><%= link_to 'Name', @sorter.to_link('name') %></th>     <th><%= link_to 'Address', @sorter.to_link('address') %></th>   </tr>

<% for person in @people %>   <tr>     <td><%=h person.name %></td>     <td><%=h person.address %></td>     <td><%= link_to 'Show', person %></td>     <td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_person_path(person) %></td>     <td><%= link_to 'Destroy', person, :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %></td>   </tr> <% end %> </table>

<br />

<!-- products/index.rhtml --> <%= will_paginate @people %>

<%= link_to 'New person', new_person_path %>

following is the code in the model:

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base

# models/product.rb def self.search(search, page)   paginate :per_page => 5, :page => page,            :conditions => ['name like ?', "%#{search}%"],            :order => 'name' end

end

i also added this line to the routes.rb

  map.connect ':controller/:action/:sort/:order'

    Looking forward to your help yet again.....:slight_smile:

guys do i have to download and install any gem for this just like the way i did for pagination?

have you install the plugin?

ruby script/plugin install svn://errtheblog.com/svn/plugins/will_paginate

and dont forget to ensure that you install svn in your OS. Try to ask google how to install SVN in your OS.

Reinhart http://teapoci.blogspot.com

well i would prefer to install a gem rather than do it through the plugin........, can anyone please tell me how to do that?