On Dec 28, 8:07 pm, Mark Reginald James <[email protected]> wrote:
> One alternative is to make the ancestor array a string key
> to each record ("abe|homer|bart"), allowing instant retrieval.
This seems like a relatively good idea, could have a string-key called
family_tree or something and just do find_by_family_tree("abe|homer|
bart")
This doesn't quite feel right - it seems like the only info you should
need to keep is a person's parent (from which you can then find their
parent and so forth). It might also lead to some very long strings
eventually!
>
> Another would be to build the sql iteratively:
>
This is what I'm doing at the moment - I'm using the "betternestedset"
plugin, so have access to a "children" method that returns an arrary
of children. Will this have all been pre-fetched efficiently? And if
so, is the iterative code the way to do it?
tree = ["abe","homer","bart"]
person = Person.find_by_name(tree[0])
if tree.size > 1
1.upto(tree.size - 1) do |i|
person = person.children.find { |child| child.name == tree
[i] }
end
end
@person = person
Thanks for the help,
DAZ
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