Working on a CMS, problem with Frontend

rubyonrails-talk
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in the controller: @artists = Artist.find(:all)

in the view:

for artist in @artsists   for album in artist.albums      ......   end   for show in artist.shows      .....   end end

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Yes sure, you can pass in conditions to associated models. Try changing the line above to......

for album in artist.albums.find(:all, :order=>"release_date ASC") or for album in artist.albums.find(:all, :order=>"release_date DESC")

depending on which order they need to be in,

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Not sure what you mean by that, have you got an example of what you want to produce?

4

Ok yes. So what you need to do is loop through the albums... Controller: @albums = Album.find(:all, :order=>"release_date ASC")

View: <%for album in @albums%>   <%=album.release_date%><br />   <%=album.artist.name%> - <%=album.name%> <%end%>

As you can see because an album belongs to an artist you can access this object with album.artist and then access any attribute within artist - i've guessed at name (album.artist.name)

Ross