Module: ActsAsTree::ClassMethods
- Defined in:
- lib/acts_as_tree.rb
Overview
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
.
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_tree :order => "name"
end
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
In addition to the parent and children associations, the following instance methods are added to the class after calling acts_as_tree
:
-
siblings
- Returns all the children of the parent, excluding the current node ([subchild2]
when called onsubchild1
) -
self_and_siblings
- Returns all the children of the parent, including the current node ([subchild1, subchild2]
when called onsubchild1
) -
ancestors
- Returns all the ancestors of the current node ([child1, root]
when called onsubchild2
) -
root
- Returns the root of the current node (root
when called onsubchild2
)
Instance Method Summary collapse
-
#acts_as_tree(options = {}) ⇒ Object
Configuration options are:.
Instance Method Details
#acts_as_tree(options = {}) ⇒ Object
Configuration options are:
-
foreign_key
- specifies the column name to use for tracking of the tree (default:parent_id
) -
order
- makes it possible to sort the children according to this SQL snippet. -
counter_cache
- keeps a count in achildren_count
column if set totrue
(default:false
).
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# File 'lib/acts_as_tree.rb', line 42 def acts_as_tree( = {}) configuration = { :foreign_key => "parent_id", :order => nil, :counter_cache => nil } configuration.update() if .is_a?(Hash) belongs_to :parent, :class_name => name, :foreign_key => configuration[:foreign_key], :counter_cache => configuration[:counter_cache] has_many :children, :class_name => name, :foreign_key => configuration[:foreign_key], :order => configuration[:order], :dependent => :destroy class_eval <<-EOV include ActsAsTree::InstanceMethods def self.roots find(:all, :conditions => "#{configuration[:foreign_key]} IS NULL", :order => #{configuration[:order].nil? ? "nil" : %Q{"#{configuration[:order]}"}}) end def self.root find(:first, :conditions => "#{configuration[:foreign_key]} IS NULL", :order => #{configuration[:order].nil? ? "nil" : %Q{"#{configuration[:order]}"}}) end EOV end |