Thanks twice-over, Erol :)  I'll look at those to see how they work

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Erol Fornoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>
> On Oct 2, 9:52 am, "Sean Clark Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > I'm stumped. Imagine I have a bunch of assets. I want to be able to group
> > them together (like in graphics programs), and then be able to group them
> > into further groups.
> >
> > What is the best way to do this?
> >
> > 1) I could have two models, Asset and AssetGroup, where Asset has_a url,
> and
> > AssetGroup has_many Assets and has_many AssetGroups.
> >
> > 2) I could have one model: Asset, which has_a url and has_many Assets,
> where
> > if it has a url it's a "leaf" asset, and if it has some assets, it's a
> > "branch." It could have a type field, too.
> >
> > 3) Something else?
> >
> > The reason this is difficult is because I want to have other models be
> able
> > to contain either an Asset or an Asset group, and treat them as the
> roughly
> > the same thing.
> >
> > How would you go about doing this?
> >
> > Thanks
> > ~sean
>
> acts_as_tree might work nicely for this.
>
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActsAsTree
> http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Acts/Tree/ClassMethods.html
> >
>

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