newest items

app/controllers/items_controller.rb

@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ class ItemsController < ApplicationController
       end
     else
       respond_to do |format|
-        format.html { render }
+        format.html {
+          @newest_items = Item.newest.limit(9)
+          render
+        }
         format.js { render :json => {:error => '$q required'}}
       end
     end

app/models/item.rb

@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ class Item < ActiveRecord::Base
     "LEFT JOIN #{SwfAsset.table_name} sa ON sa.type = 'object' AND sa.id = psa.swf_asset_id"
   ).where('sa.id IS NULL')
 
+  scope :newest, order(arel_table[:created_at].desc)
+
   scope :spidered_longest_ago, order(["(#{Item.arel_table[:last_spidered].eq(nil).to_sql}) DESC", arel_table[:last_spidered].desc])
 
   scope :sold_in_mall, where(:sold_in_mall => true)

app/stylesheets/items/_index.sass

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ body.items-index
   form
     margin-bottom: 2em
 
-  #search-help
+  #search-info
     +main_unit
     padding-right: 1%
     dl
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ body.items-index
     img
       height: 80px
       width: 80px
+

app/views/items/index.html.haml

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     = render @items
     = will_paginate @items
 - else
+  #search-info
     #search-help
       %h2 Find what you're looking for
       %dl
@@ -34,6 +35,10 @@
         %dt type:hat
         %dd returns any item that fills a "hat" zone
 
+    #search-new-items
+      %h2 Newest items
+      = render @newest_items
+
   #species-search-links
     %h2 Can't decide? Search by species
     = standard_species_search_links

db/migrate/20110804134432_add_timestamps_to_items.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+class AddTimestampsToItems < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def self.up
+    add_timestamps :objects
+
+    timestamp_query = "(SELECT created_at FROM contributions WHERE contributed_id = objects.id AND contributed_type = 'Item')"
+    update "UPDATE objects SET created_at = #{timestamp_query}, updated_at = #{timestamp_query}"
+  end
+
+  def self.down
+    remove_timestamps :objects
+  end
+end
+

db/schema.rb

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended to check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20110731021808) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20110804134432) do
 
   create_table "auth_servers", :force => true do |t|
     t.string "short_name", :limit => 10,       :null => false
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20110731021808) do
     t.text     "species_support_ids", :limit => 16777215
     t.boolean  "sold_in_mall",                            :null => false
     t.datetime "last_spidered"
+    t.datetime "created_at"
+    t.datetime "updated_at"
   end
 
   add_index "objects", ["last_spidered"], :name => "objects_last_spidered"

public/stylesheets/compiled/screen.css

@@ -1638,21 +1638,21 @@ body.items-index form {
   margin-bottom: 2em;
 }
 /* line 11, ../../../app/stylesheets/items/_index.sass */
-body.items-index #search-help {
+body.items-index #search-info {
   float: left;
   width: 49%;
   padding-right: 1%;
 }
 /* line 4, ../../../app/stylesheets/items/_index.sass */
-body.items-index #search-help h2 {
+body.items-index #search-info h2 {
   font-size: 125%;
 }
 /* line 14, ../../../app/stylesheets/items/_index.sass */
-body.items-index #search-help dl {
+body.items-index #search-info dl {
   text-align: left;
 }
 /* line 16, ../../../app/stylesheets/items/_index.sass */
-body.items-index #search-help dd {
+body.items-index #search-info dd {
   margin-bottom: 1em;
 }
 /* line 19, ../../../app/stylesheets/items/_index.sass */