How do I create a facebook style news feed in ruby on rails?

Question

I am trying to fuse to objects into a single stream.

I created a new model and controller called Newsfeed. I have it so that newsfeed has_many :messages and has_many

Answer 1

You could do something as :

controller:

def index
    messages = Messages.all
    images = Images.all
    @feed = (messages + images).order_by(&:created_at)
end

view index.html.erb :

<%= render @feed %>

view _feed.html.erb :

<% if feed.is_a? Message %>
  <%= render "message", :locals => {:message => feed}%>
<% else %>
  <%= render "image", :locals => {:image => feed}%>
<% end %>

And add 2 partials _message.html.erb and _image.html.erb