On 13 September 2012 21:28, Kyle A. <[email protected]> wrote: > Colin Law wrote in post #1075895: >> On 13 September 2012 19:22, Kyle A. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So for the convince of all I have posted my code on gist. I am having >>> issues using the ancestry gem to nest comments. the issue is that said >>> comment does not nest under the parent comment, instead it is added to >>> the end of the comments list. >>> >>> I have a relationship of tasks to comments, where a task has many >>> comments and a comment belongs to task. Your help is appreciated. >>> >>> My code is posted here: https://gist.github.com/3716160 >> >> Have a look at the Rails Guide on Debugging. That will show you ways >> of debugging your code. First home in on /exactly/ which section is >> failing so that rather than saying "comment does not nest under the >> parent comment, instead it is added to the end of the comments list" >> you can point to a couple of lines of code and say what it is doing >> wrong, so you can ask here again. In practice it is likely that >> having homed in on the lines of code you will see yourself what the >> problem is. >> >> Colin > > taking this into consideration and spending what seems like for ever > scouring the internet and reading articles, even going over the tutorial > I go thris from I have come to the conclusion that it is a few things. > > One: > > module CommentsHelper > def nested_comments(comments) > comments.map do |comment, sub_comments| > render(comment) + content_tag(:div, nested_comments(sub_comments), > :class => 'nested_comments') > end.join.html_safe > end > end > > > the code should display something like this when I rendered out > comments, > before it could do comments.map > > { #<TreeNode id: 100018, name: "Stinky", ancestry: nil> > => { #<TreeNode id: 100019, name: "Crunchy", ancestry: "100018"> > => { #<TreeNode id: 100020, name: "Squeeky", ancestry: > "100018/100019"> > => {} > } > } > } > > except it doesn't, I get > > { #<TreeNode id: 100018, name: "Stinky", ancestry: nil>} > { #<TreeNode id: 100019, name: "Crunchy", ancestry: nil>} > { #<TreeNode id: 100020, name: "Squeeky", ancestry: nil>} > {} > > So there’s something wrong with the helper even when its the same as the > example tutorial I was following > > > Two: > > parent_id is apparently an attribute of comments, how ever in the > example I followed they did not have to assign it as a accessible > attribute, where as I do - else I get an error - plus there is no column > for parent_id - as there ins't suppose to be one, just ancestry and an > index of ancestry - which I have tripple checked > > How ever with all that said the code seems to work. so I kept moving on > - One of the other issues after playing with the code is the helper > method. > > if I take this: > > module CommentsHelper > def nested_comments(comments) > comments.map do |comment, sub_comments| > render(comment) + content_tag(:div, nested_comments(sub_comments), > :class => 'nested_comments') > end.join.html_safe > end > end > > > and replace the nested_comments(sub_comments) with 'hello' I get > > [commnet] > hello > [comment] > hello > > So with that new information. what else should I be looking for? I have > red all the documentation I can, poured over examples, read he out put a > thousand times. I have printed out comments, I have tried different > styles such as @tasks.comments - as comments belong to tasks. and still > I am lost.
OK, I misunderstood what you had already done. I think you are saying it is a problem with the ancestry gem itself. Sorry I have not used that. Anyone else? Have you tried using the gem in the simplest way possible to make sure you understand how it is supposed to work? Which version of Rails are you using? Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
