Passing dynamic parameter in a bloc

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in a RoR plugin, I am passing a string parameter (column name) i.e 'karma' as the sort parameter:

User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| u.id }
"SELECT * FROM users WHERE (users.`karma` > 20) ORDER BY users.karma"

Is there any tric to pass a dynamic parameter as a variable ?
User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| ...... }

I tried
@criteria = 'id'
User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| u.send @criteria }

but it generates a wrong SQL
"SELECT * FROM users WHERE users.`id` > 20 ORDER BY users.send"

thanks for your help

joss

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in a RoR plugin, I am passing a string parameter (column name) i.e
'karma' as the sort parameter:

User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| u.id }
"SELECT * FROM users WHERE (users.`karma` > 20) ORDER BY users.karma"

Is there any tric to pass a dynamic parameter as a variable ?
User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| ...... }

I tried
@criteria = 'id'
User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| u.send @criteria }

but it generates a wrong SQL
"SELECT * FROM users WHERE users.`id` > 20 ORDER BY users.send"

thanks for your help

This is really a rails specific question but here's a guess on how you
might be able to do it, if this doesn't work you should really try the
rails list. Actually you should probably try the rails list even if
this does work, there's almost certainly a better way to do this than
i what I am suggesting.

@criteria = 'id'
User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| u.method_missing @criteria }

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On 10/1/07, Josselin <josselin@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

joss

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thanks a lot for your advice... that's true it's a Rail specific question, ... the plugin's developer mentionned that it's not possible at the present time to do what I want to do... (future release) but he gave me a trick to go on without waiting for the new coming release....
this plugin is trying to hide all SQL calls behind a full Ruby interface , already very useful.....
for interested people see :

http://errtheblog.com/post/10722

joss

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On 2007-10-01 22:58:25 +0200, "Logan Capaldo" <logancapaldo@gmail.com> said:

On 10/1/07, Josselin <josselin@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

in a RoR plugin, I am passing a string parameter (column name) i.e
'karma' as the sort parameter:

User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| u.id }
"SELECT * FROM users WHERE (users.`karma` > 20) ORDER BY users.karma"

Is there any tric to pass a dynamic parameter as a variable ?
User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| ...... }

I tried
@criteria = 'id'
User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| u.send @criteria }

but it generates a wrong SQL
"SELECT * FROM users WHERE users.`id` > 20 ORDER BY users.send"

thanks for your help

This is really a rails specific question but here's a guess on how you
might be able to do it, if this doesn't work you should really try the
rails list. Actually you should probably try the rails list even if
this does work, there's almost certainly a better way to do this than
i what I am suggesting.

@criteria = 'id'
User.select { |u| u.id > 20 }.sort_by { |u| u.method_missing @criteria }

joss