Rails - Feb 2006 - Many-To-Many w/acts_as_tree?

Guys,

I''m having a problem getting acts_as_tree working.  It seems from the 
Agile book (p. 255) that acts_as_tree only supports one-to-one record 
relations, whereas I need many-to-many support.  In other words, looking 
at the picture at the top of page 256 where where only 1 id is linked to 
1 parent_id, I need multiple id''s linked to multiple
parent_id''s - for
example, id = 6 linked to not only parent_id 3, but also parent_id 7 and 
5 (not really parents, just linked).  Obviously w/the id column being a 
primary key, duplicate values of id = 6 isn''t going to work.

Any suggestions on getting this to work?

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On 08 Feb 2006, at 20:27, Peter Jagielski wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I''m having a problem getting acts_as_tree working.  It seems from
the
> Agile book (p. 255) that acts_as_tree only supports one-to-one record
> relations, whereas I need many-to-many support.  In other words,  
> looking
> at the picture at the top of page 256 where where only 1 id is  
> linked to
> 1 parent_id, I need multiple id''s linked to multiple
parent_id''s - for
> example, id = 6 linked to not only parent_id 3, but also parent_id  
> 7 and
> 5 (not really parents, just linked).  Obviously w/the id column  
> being a
> primary key, duplicate values of id = 6 isn''t going to work.
>
> Any suggestions on getting this to work?
Recipe 7 in the Rails Recipes Beta book will help you out on this  
one: Self-referential Many-to-Many Relationships. Even in this early  
stage, the book is well worth its price.



Best regards

Peter De Berdt