acts_as_tree

doug
Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:05:53 -0000

My goal is to use nested elements to display a hierarchical view
of an entire table.  It is my understanding that all acts_as_tree does
is make available 3 additional methods: ''ancestors'',
''root'', and
''siblings''.  As useful as these methods may be, I
don''t see how they
are going to help me achieve my goal.  It seems to me that I''m
additionally going to need to somehow get the table sorted properly;
and, even after I have done that I''m still left with the difficult
issue of keeping track of levels and opening and closing tags
appropriately.  Am I missing something?

Thanks for any input.

          ... doug