Trivet

Trivet is a generic class for organizing a hierarchy.

Basic usage

 1.  food = Trivet::Node.new('food')
 2.  
 3.  food.node('spices') do |spices|
 4.      spices.node 'paprika'
 5.  
 6.      spices.node('pepper') do |pepper|
 7.          pepper.node 'java'
 8.          pepper.node 'matico'
 9.          pepper.node 'cubeb'
10.      end
11.  end
12.  
13.  food.node('fruit') do |fruit|
14.      fruit.node('red') do |red|
15.          red.node 'cherry'
16.          red.node 'apple'
17.      end
18.  end
19.  
20.  puts food.to_tree

Line #start# creates a Trivet::Node object and assigns it the id "food". Lines #spices# to #fruit-end# use the node() method to create child nodes.

Line #end# uses the to_tree() method to display the tree as text, which looks like this:

food
    spices
        paprika
            pepper
                java
                matico
                cubeb
    fruit
        red
            cherry
            apple

The tree can include non Trivet::Node objects.

food = Trivet::Node.new('food')

food.node('spices') do |spices|
    spices.node('paprika') do |paprika|
        paprika.children.push 'By from Fred'
    end
end

See documentation for Trivet::Node, Trivet::Document, and Trivet::ChildSet for more documentation.

Install

gem install codeblock

Name

The name "Trivet" doesn't have any particular significance. My friend has a cat named "Trivet". Meow.

Author

Mike O'Sullivan mike@idocs.com

History

version	date	notes
1.0	June 18, 2020	Initial upload.
1.1	June 22, 2020	Consolidated can_have_children? and can_have_child? into allow_child?.
1.2	January 3, 2021	Added several methods to Trivet::Node: next_sibling, previous_sibling, have_child?, and move_child.