Thanks for your responses. Before I posted this question, I looked at awesome_nested_set. But I have two problems with it: (1) my entire application is largely a tree, but the nodes are of different classes at different levels, and the nested sets need all nodes to be of the same or a derived type, (2) the tree here is almost always flat, making the nested set solution way overkill. So I'm just looking to understand whether there's a bug here or I'm misunderstanding how RoR handles a self-referential belongs_to association.
Specifically, I'd like to know why an7 = an8.asset_node Didn't actually return the object that an8.asset_node refers to? -Russ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

