Rails 7 has introduced the in_order_of method which allows to sort records in a specific order. There is a detailed explanation of it in the article Rails 7 adds in_order_of for ActiveRecord::QueryMethods and Enumerable. This is a follow-up article to that one, in which we will explore how the in_order_of method has been improved in Rails 7.1. Rails 7 adds in_order_of for ActiveRecord::QueryMethods and EnumerableRails 7 has added in_order_of method for ActiveRecord::QueryMethods and Enumerable to retrieve the data in an explicit order.Kiprosh BlogsSupriya Laxman MedankarAllows

Quite often in our Rails application, we need to retrieve records sorted in a specific order. For example, in an e-commerce application, we want to retrieve the customer orders in the order of "Completed, Cancelled, In Transit, Pending" statuses. The way to do it is to write an explicit SQL query. Starting Rails 7, this can be achieved simply with the help of the in_order_of method for ActiveRecord::QueryMethods and Enumerable. This article explains how we can use the in_order_of method to sort data in Rails 7. 1. ActiveRecord::QueryMethods#in_order_ofConsider we have a