Ordered Attributes

I released my first Ruby on Rails plugin today. It is actually helpful for building Ext JS grids! More on that later in an extra post. Below some information about the ordered attributes plugin (taken from the README file).

Ordered Attributes
This Ruby on Rails plugin provides a way to order ActiveRecord attributes for using them for csv exports or automated
table generation.

Installation
git clone git://github.com/steffen/ordered_attributes.git vendor/plugins/ordered_attributes
or if you are on edge rails
script/plugin install git://github.com/steffen/ordered_attributes.git

Example

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
  
  attr_order :name, :street, :zip, :city
  
  attr_groups :address => [:street, :zip, :city],
              :birth => [:date_of_birth, :place_of_birth], // you can use %w(date_of_birth place_of_birth) as well
              :all => [:name, :address, :birth]
  
end

Use the ordered_attributes method to get the ordered attributes:

Person.ordered_attributes
=> [:name, :street, :zip, :city]

Person.ordered_attributes(:all)
=> [:name, :street, :zip, :city, :date_of_birth, :place_of_birth]

See spec/ordered_attributes_spec.rb for more Examples!