add popularity counter to blog posts as well as accessor for recent posts

app/controllers/refinery/blog/posts_controller.rb

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ module Refinery
         @comment = Comment.new
 
         @canonical = url_for(:locale => ::Refinery::I18n.default_frontend_locale) if canonical?
+        
+        @post.increment!(:access_count,1)
 
         respond_with (@post) do |format|
           format.html { present(@post) }

app/models/refinery/blog/post.rb

@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ module Refinery
         def live
           where( "published_at <= ? and draft = ?", Time.now, false)
         end
+        
+        def recent(count)
+          where("published_at <= ? and draft = ?", Time.now, false).limit(count)
+        end
+        
+        def popular(count)
+          unscoped.order("access_count DESC").limit(count)
+        end
 
         def previous(item)
           where(["published_at < ? and draft = ?", item.published_at, false]).limit(1)