Sorting Products on Taxon#show

[greeneggs]

I'm a little lost on how to sort products (sort by name, price, etc)
on the Taxon#show. I read the documentation on named scopes, but I
still don't quite understand how to proceed. Any pointers?

[greeneggs]

Can anybody give me advice?

[nikimere]

Do you mean the default order or user selected reordering? i.e.
buttons that say "Order by price, Order by name" etc...

- Niki

[greeneggs]

More particularly user selected reordering. I am curious about
setting the default ordering too. Thanks for responding.

-Scott

[nikimere]

I'm still trying to figure out the default myself. Haven't spent too
much time on it though.
For user clickable reordering it's fairly straightforward. See below:

<%= link_to "Price - Down", seo_url(@taxon)+"s/
ascend_by_master_price" %>
<%= link_to "Price - Up", seo_url(@taxon)+"s/descend_by_master_price"
%>
<%= link_to "Name - Down", seo_url(@taxon)+"s/ascend_by_name" %>
<%= link_to "Name - Up", seo_url(@taxon)+"s/descend_by_name" %>

That is code that would go on your taxon/show page.
Basically all you have to do is append "/s/" onto the end of your URL
then the name of the scope, i.e. ascend_by_master_price etc...

I've done it for a client, it's a bit of an ugly implementation at the
moment but you can see it here: http://www.murraymotorsport.ie/t/products/racewear/fireproof-suits
It's on the top right above the products.

Hope that puts you in the right direction.

- Niki

[greeneggs]

Thanks Niki. Yeah, that helps, but I was really hoping to use a drop
down. Using links works, but I don't really like creating new urls
for a simple sorting. In my experience, it's bad practice to have new
urls for the same content because google / search bots will spread
your "juice" to each sort option.
Any how, this is what I attempted to do:

Added a hash to the Taxons Controller via class_eval
@sort_options = {
"Most Popular" => "descend_by_popularity",
"Name: A to Z" => "ascend_by_name",
"Name: Z to A" => "descend_by_name",
"Price: High to Low" => "descend_by_master_price",
"Price: Low to High" => "ascend_by_master_price",
}

Then I created the following drop down that renders on Taxons#show

<% form_for :taxon, :url => seo_url(@taxon) do |f| %>
<%= select_tag 'product_group_query',
options_for_select(@sort_options.each_pair { |key, value|
[key,value] }), :onchange => "this.form.submit();" %>
<% end %>

Here's the interesting part, the "ascend_by_WHATEVER" works, but the
the "descend_by_WHATEVER" gives me the following Exception:
NoMethodError (undefined method `pop' for
"descend_by_popularity":String):
spree (0.11.0) app/models/product_group.rb:76:in `from_route'
spree (0.11.0) lib/spree/search.rb:23:in `retrieve_products'
spree (0.11.0) app/controllers/taxons_controller.rb:13:in
`load_data'

I wonder if I'm doing something wrong or maybe something got screwed
up via implementation of the site. Maybe I should abandon my idea,
but it seems like you should be able to post to the taxons controller
witha a "product_group_query" parameter and have it sort.

Has anyone else tried this? Am I nuts for attempting this?

-Scott

[greeneggs]

Bump...anybody?

[Victor Ilyukevich]

I think, you should rewrite method object for taxon model and setup default sorting there.

And also you can submit your form for the same url with GET method and in your new method object you will check if there params[:sord_by] and if it needed - sort results.

Bump...anybody?

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[Sonu Singh]

Hi Niki,

I am facing the same issue and applied your approach getting the same result. I am using code like this

in taxons#show

@sort_options = { 

          "Most Popular" => "descend_by_popularity", 

          "Name: A to Z" => "ascend_by_name", 

          "Name: Z to A" => "descend_by_name", 

          "Price: High to Low" => "descend_by_master_price", 

          "Price: Low to High" => "ascend_by_master_price", 

      }

show.html.erb

<%= form_for :taxon, :url => seo_url(@taxon), :method=> 'get' do |f| %> 

                    <%= select_tag 'product_group_query', 

                    options_for_select(@sort_options.each_pair {  |key, value| 

                    [key,value]  }), :onchange => "this.form.submit();" %> 

                  <% end %> 

Could you please give me some idea why same result or I have to do any more.

Thank you so much in advance.

Sonu