How do I sort in ruby/rails on two fields?

Question

For example, I would like to sort by game_date, and then if the date is the same, sort it by team? What would be the best way to do this?

@teams = @user.tea         


        

Answer 1

For those looking to sort an array containing two different objects w/ a differently named date field, you can do this with an attribute alias method in the model.

note: using .sort_by! destructively doesn't work.

News.rb

def release_date
    self.publish_date
end

Controller

@grid_elements = @news + @albums
@grid_elements = @grid_elements.sort_by(&:release_date)