Sortable Table

Sort HTML tables in a Rails app.

Install

script/plugin install git://github.com/dancroak/sortable_table.git

In test/test_helper.rb:

class Test::Unit::TestCase include SortableTable::Test::TestHelper end

In app/controllers/application_controller.rb:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base include SortableTable::App::Controllers::ApplicationController end

In app/helpers/application_helper.rb:

module ApplicationHelper include SortableTable::App::Helpers::ApplicationHelper end

Conventions

params[:sort] and params[:order]

Examples

Use the sortable_attributes macro to list the… sortable attributes.

Then, in your index action, pass the sort_order method to your usual
order parameter for will paginate or named scope call.

class UsersController < Admin::BaseController sortable_attributes :name, :email def index @users = User.paginate :page => params[:page], :order => sort_order end end

Time-saving Shoulda macros for your tests:

class UsersControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase context ‘GET to index with sort and order params’ do setup do 5.times do |each| Factory :user, :name => “name #{each}”, :email => “email#{each}@example.com” end end should_sort_by :name should_sort_by :email end end

And some sugar for your views:

%h1 Users %table %tr = sortable_table_header :name => ‘Name’, :sort => ‘name’ = sortable_table_header :name => ‘E-mail’, :sort => ‘email’ - @users.each do |each| %tr %td= each.name %td= each.email

Authors
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Dan Croak, Joe Ferris, and Boston.rb.

Copyright © 2008 Dan Croak, released under the MIT license