EasyOrderable

Easy ordering of Active Record objects.

Usage

class User < ApplicationRecord
  include EasyOrderable

  has_many :bookings
  has_many :requests
end

class Booking < ApplicationRecord
  include EasyOrdearble

  belongs_to :user
end

class Request < ApplicationRecord
  include EasyOrderable

  belongs_to :renter, class_name: 'User', foreign_key: :user_id
end

#<User id: 1, first_name: 'A'>
#<User id: 2, first_name: 'B'>
#<User id: 3, first_name: 'C'>

Sort by column name asc

>> User.assort('first_name')
=> [#<User first_name: 'A'>, #<User first_name: 'B'>, #<User first_name: 'B'>]

Sort by column name desc

>> User.assort('-first_name')
=> [#<User first_name: 'C'>, #<User first_name: 'B'>, #<User first_name: 'A'>]

Sort by joined column name

>> Booking.assort('-user.first_name')

Sort by joined column name when associations name is custom

>> Request.assort('-user.first_name', user: :renter)

Sort by multiple params

>> Booking.assort('-user.first_name,slot_places')

You can use it from rails controller to handle json api compliant sort requests

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @users = User.assort(order_param)
  end

  private

  def order_param
    params[:sort]
  end
end

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'easy_orderable'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install easy_orderable

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Clone the project git clone git@github.com:[YOUR GITHUB USERNAME]/easy_orderable.git
3. cd easy_orderable
4. Install dependencies, bundle install
5. Create your feature branch git checkout -b my-new-feature
6. Write your feature, along with tests for your changes
7. Run the tests rake test, all must be green
8. Commit your changes git commit -am 'Added some feature'
9. Push to the branch git push origin my-new-feature
10. Create new Pull Request

Donating

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License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.