Re: [Rails] Re: Best form in pulling the last two records from a dataset in active record

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Jeroen van Ingen <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Create a named_scope (scope in Rails 3) like this:
> scope :secondlatestpost, :limit => 2, :order => :published_at

Or for some flexibility:

scope :latest, lambda {|number| { :order => :updated_at, :limit => number } }

> BlogPost.latest

then you can ask for e.g. BlogPost.latest 2 or BlogPost.latest 5
(and with no number specified get them all in update order).

FWIW,
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