DESC not :DESC. Remove semicolons.

On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 9:09:11 PM UTC+5, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:
>
> please help solve the problem. 
> tables: 
> users: 
> id: integer 
> name: varchar 
>
> posts: 
> id: integer 
> title: varchar 
> user_id: integer 
> views: integer 
>
>
> models: 
> User: 
> class User < ActiveRecord::Base 
>   has_many    :posts,  dependent:  :destroy 
> end 
>
> Posts: 
> class Post < ActiveRecord::Base 
>   belongs_to  :user 
> end 
>
>
> controller: 
> def popular_diary 
>   @diaries = 
> User.joins(:posts).group(:user_id).order('SUM(posts.views)') 
> end 
>
> the result @diaries contains a collection users, sorted by the number of 
> views. in ascending order (ASC). but I need to get a collection of 
> users, sorted in descending order (DESC). 
>
> I have tried to do so: 
> @diaries = User.joins(:posts).group(:user_id).order('SUM(posts.views) 
> :DESC') 
>
> but I got an error message: 
> SQLite3::SQLException: near ":DESC": syntax error: SELECT "users".* FROM 
> "users" INNER JOIN "posts" ON "posts"."user_id" = "users"."id" GROUP BY 
> user_id  ORDER BY SUM(posts.views) :DESC 
>
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