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Re: Help required on sorting

by David A. Black :: Rate this Message:

Hi --

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Dipti Iyengar wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I ve to sort risks by "High" "Medium" "Low" "Info" and "Safe"
>
> When I sort in the model it sorts in the alphabetical order which is not
> what i want.
>
> Tried adding a position to each of it as High -> 1 Medium -> 2 etc. and
> then sorting by the position....but seems like too much of work
>
> Any quicker way to do this?

You could do:

LEVELS = %w{ High Medium Low Info Safe }

sorted = risks.sort_by {|r| LEVELS.index(r.capitalize) }

David

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