I spent five minutes finding this today (don’t get me started on Dojo documentation!) so I thought I’d try and put it in an easier to find place – Google.
I wanted to specify my sort order declaratively as part of the tag defining my Datagrid and this is what I found to work :
This will tell the datagrid to automatically sort the Datagrid in a descending manner on column 4. If I’d used 5, or “+5″ then that would be in ascending sort order on the fifth column.
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Today I was fiddling with some code to get particular types of payments that are due on particular days and I ran across a couple of things I don’t want to solve again.
Firstly, the problem of being able to have default arguments to a block in ruby. It’s solved nicely in Ruby 1.9 but we’re using 1.8.x on our boxes at the moment. The work around is incredibly simple though and goes something like this :
That’s all there is to it really. You could go the whole hog with hashed attributes and so on but I think it starts to get a bit smelly if your anonymous functions are taking more than one argument.
The other issue I had was whether a named scope can include a join, and it can.
The coolest thing about all of this though (and I feel I’m very late to the party here) is that I now get to do things like :
Payment.credit_card.due_on(Date.today)
# or
Payment.credit_card.due_on
# or
Payment.due_on(Date.today + 1.month)
In the above I had just used the default argument to the due_on named scope to be today’s date.
I mean, I’d seen a bunch of tutorials on named scopes and how they worked but hadn’t found a use case in my work. I think it’s finally twigged for me though and will be making use of them a bit more in the future.
