Ordering thumbs up results by vote count

Question

Still a rails newbie, trying to order the following list by the sum of votes_for+votes_against on subitems, with thumbs_up the votes live in another table though

@subitems = @items.subitems

Answer 1

You should use:

@items = Item.plusminus_tally({:order => "vote_count ASC"})

I included the order override in there, in case you wanted to change it from the default of descending order. This is for Rails 3.

A subitem should have it's own:

acts_as_voteable

in its model.