Redmine

Because of Rails 3 by default uses order from has_many :order statement before any defined order, messages are always sorted by creation time first regardless of sticky attribute.

To fix it, line 46 in file app/controllers/boards_controller.rb

@topics =  @board.topics.find :all, :order => ["#{Message.table_name}.sticky DESC", sort_clause].compact.join(', '),
   :include => [:author, {:last_reply => :author}],
   :limit  =>  @topic_pages.items_per_page,
   :offset =>  @topic_pages.current.offset

should be changed to

@topics =  @board.topics.reorder(["#{Message.table_name}.sticky DESC", sort_clause].compact.join(', ')).all(
   :include => [:author, {:last_reply => :author}],
   :limit  =>  @topic_pages.items_per_page,
   :offset =>  @topic_pages.current.offset)