[Radiant] any way to dynamically populate <r:random>?

[john muhl]

I guess Sunday is as good a day as any to get to know rspec. Unless  
someone beats me to it I send a pull request when I think I have  
something useful.

On 2008/06/07, at 20:35, Sean Cribbs wrote:

> Actually, I just answered my own question.  We should really be  
> rendering the contents of <r:option> at each pass, rather than  
> passing the block back.  The reason is that local context  
> (tag.locals) will be potentially lost when you render the block  
> after selecting the option.  However, a spec that demonstrates the  
> difference would be appreciated!
>
> Sean
>
> Sean Cribbs wrote:
>> This one has always been a mystery to me, however I believe it has  
>> to do with tag blocks versus expands.  I imagine, however, we could  
>> produce a failing spec to demonstrate what is unexpected about the  
>> behavior.  Any takers?
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> john muhl wrote:
>>> On 2008/06/07, at 16:49, Andrew Neil wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6 Jun 2008, at 01:01, john muhl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to insert part of a random subpage into the sidebar and  
>>>>> figured it'd be a good fit for the <r:random> tag but so far am  
>>>>> having very little luck. I've tried:
>>>>>
>>>>> <r:random>
>>>>> <r:children:each>
>>>>>  <r:option><r:title/></r:option>
>>>>> </r:children:each>
>>>>> </r:random>
>>>>
>>>> I thought of an alternative approach which might be easier to  
>>>> implement. Here is an example:
>>>>
>>>> <r:find url="/quotations">
>>>> <r:children:each limit="1" order="rand">
>>>>     <r:content part="body"/>
>>>> </r:children:each>
>>>> </r:find>
>>>>
>>>> This doesn't work at the moment, because the order attribute can  
>>>> only be asc or desc. I think it would be pretty easy to add the  
>>>> option for random order though.
>>>
>>> I was going to try putting together a patch to add "rand" as an  
>>> order option, but as far as I can tell the "ASC" and "DESC"  
>>> ordering is part of ActiveRecord and that seems like the wrong  
>>> place to apply a patch for Radiant. Am I way off base here or are  
>>> the ordering options, in fact, part of ActiveRecord?
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