In my app I created a recent posts feature.
@recentposts = Post.all(:order => \'created_at DESC\', :limit => 5)
This variable makes
A call to Post.all
will return an ActiveRecord::Relation
, which will be loaded lazily by default. Calling Post.all.load
will return an eagerly-loaded ActiveRecord::Relation
. Finally, calling Post.all.to_a
will return all records in an array.
In your case you would do:
Post.order('created_at DESC').limit(5).to_a
which would return an array of the first 5 Posts, sorted by created_at
in descending order.