I have a rails app (postgres + postGIS) with a post model with a rating column (integer). If I go into the console and do:
Post.order("rating DESC").map(&:id)
=> [9, 15, 19, 6, 17, 5, 4, 16, 1, 3, 13, 20, 14, 10, 8, 12, 7, 2, 18, 11]
yet if I try to cycle through those one at a time with limit and offset, I get bizarre results.
Post.order("rating DESC").limit(1).offset(0)
=> [#<Post id: 5, body: "Hi", rating: 4, location: #<RGeo::Geographic::SphericalPointImpl:0x81bb34c0 "POINT (-118.495 34.017)">, user_id: 8, created_at: "2012-07-25 22:43:41", updated_at: "2012-07-25 22:43:41">]
Why is that post #5? It should be #9. Anyway then it gets even more wacko when I apply an offset.
>Post.order("rating DESC").limit(1).offset(1)
=> [#<Post id: 5, body: "Hi", rating: 4, location: #<RGeo::Geographic::SphericalPointImpl:0x81bb34c0 "POINT (-118.495 34.017)">, user_id: 8, created_at: "2012-07-25 22:43:41", updated_at: "2012-07-25 22:43:41">]
>Post.order("rating DESC").limit(1).offset(2)
=> [#<Post id: 5, body: "Hi", rating: 4, location: #<RGeo::Geographic::SphericalPointImpl:0x81bb34c0 "POINT (-118.495 34.017)">, user_id: 8, created_at: "2012-07-25 22:43:41", updated_at: "2012-07-25 22:43:41">]
>Post.order("rating DESC").limit(1).offset(3)
=> [#<Post id: 5, body: "Hi", rating: 4, location: #<RGeo::Geographic::SphericalPointImpl:0x81bb34c0 "POINT (-118.495 34.017)">, user_id: 8, created_at: "2012-07-25 22:43:41", updated_at: "2012-07-25 22:43:41">]
>Post.order("rating DESC").limit(1).offset(4)
=> [#<Post id: 15, body: "I luv coffee", rating: 4, flagged: 0, location: #<RGeo::Geographic::SphericalPointImpl:0x82260df4 "POINT (-118.495 34.017)">, user_id: 1, created_at: "2012-07-25 22:43:41", updated_at: "2012-07-25 22:43:41">]
