Sort eloquent query by model relationship

@jpeterson579 You could add a condition like below:

$post = Post::where('id', $post_id)->with(['ratings', 'ratings.user', 'ratings.like_votes' => function
($query) {
    $query->orderBy('your_field', 'desc');
}])->firstOrFail();

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@meeshka Hmm, I think this would work but are you ordering the ratings.like_votes here?

To order the ratings by how many like_votes it has wouldn't it be something like

$post = Post::where('id', $post_id)->with(['ratings' => function ($query) 
{
    $query->orderBy($query.like_votes->count(), 'desc');
}, 
'ratings.user', 'ratings.like_votes'])->firstOrFail();