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module ActiveRecord
module Acts #:nodoc:
module Tree #:nodoc:
def self.append_features(base)
super
base.extend(ClassMethods)
end
# Specify this act if you want to model a tree structure by providing a parent association and an children
# association. This act assumes that 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
# \_ sub-child1
#
# 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
module ClassMethods
# Configuration options are:
#
# * <tt>foreign_key</tt> - specifies the column name to use for track of the tree (default: parent_id)
# * <tt>order</tt> - makes it possible to sort the children according to this SQL snippet.
def acts_as_tree(options = {})
configuration = { :foreign_key => "parent_id", :order => nil }
configuration.update(options) if options.is_a?(Hash)
belongs_to :parent, :class_name => name, :foreign_key => configuration[:foreign_key]
has_many :children, :class_name => name, :foreign_key => configuration[:foreign_key], :order => configuration[:order], :dependent => true
end
end
end
end
end
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