Jeff Pritchard wrote: > I have a list of Groups with members and sub-groups in an unlimited > depth. > > It has the same basic structure as a directory listing in either Mac > Finder or Windoze Explorer where the files a roughly analogous to my > members, and the sub-dirs are analogous to my sub-groups. Just as in > Mac Finder, I would like to have it remember the "open-ness" of the > dirs/sub-dirs in the db so user will see it the same way on subsequent > uses of the app. > > Is there some sort of a plugin for displaying this kind of a data set in > Rails? > > If not, how would you go about designing this? I'm stuck.
Why are you stuck? 2 minutes of Google searching on implementing hierarchical trees in SQL would have led you to the nested-set pattern. Another minute would have led you to the awesome_nested_set plugin for Rails. > > thanks, > jp Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
