kristianmandrup / acts_as_tree_rails3

The old acts_as_tree updated and converted into a gem for rails 3

Acts as tree for Rails 3

Specify this acts_as extension if you want to model a tree structure by providing a parent association and a children association. This requires that you have a foreign key column, which by default is called parent_id.

Generate a database migration

In terminal: rails g model Category name:string parent_id:integer

Should generate a migration

  class CreateCategories < ActiveRecord::Migration
    def self.up
      create_table :categories do |t|
        t.string  :name
        t.integer :parent_id

        t.timestamps
      end
    end

    def self.down
      drop_table :categories
    end
  end  

Migrate the database

In terminal: rake db:migrate

Should create the database table called 'categories'.

Add ActAsTree to the model

  # app/models/category.rb
  class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
    acts_as_tree :order => "name"
  end

Creaete a Seed file to seed the database with tree data (nodes)

  # db/seed.rb

  root      = Category.create("name" => "root")
  child1    = root.children.create("name" => "child1")
  subchild1 = child1.children.create("name" => "subchild1")

Seed the database!

In terminal: rake db:seed

API usage

  Example:
  root
   \_ child1
        \_ subchild1
        \_ subchild2

  root      = Category.create("name" => "root")
  child1    = root.children.create("name" => "child1")
  subchild1 = child1.children.create("name" => "subchild1")

  root.parent   # => nil
  child1.parent # => root
  root.children # => [child1]
  root.children.first.children.first # => subchild1  
  

License

Copyright (c) 2007 David Heinemeier Hansson, released under the MIT license

Includes patch from http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1924