Serving an array of different content types in Rails

Question

I have two content types, articles and events. I want to create a partial on my homepage to serve an array of both.

I was thinking of creating a helper method called latest_news, something like this

def latest_news(limit=12)
    @articles = Article.all
    @events = Event.all
    sort_by(&:created_at)
end

Also, how would I sort the articles by their publish_date and the events by their event_date?

Answer 1

Why do you want to put it in helper method? You can have @articles and @events in your controller action which is serving home page.

Also you can sort individually both the content

@articles = Article.order(:publish_date)

@events = Event.order(:event_date)