Module | ActsAsTree::ClassMethods |
In: |
lib/acts_as_tree.rb
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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: