Rails - Sep 2009 - Categories and articles plug-in, act_as_tree, act_as_list

This is my first message, so hello to everybody!

I would like to have a simple intranet with categories and articles
management. I think to use act_as_tree for the categories and
act_as_list for the articles, but any article should be connected to
one category. So in any category I can have one or more articles in a
list. Do I have to declare a Category class as parent of the list of
the articles? As you might guess I am a Ruby and Rails rookie.

I would like to know if there is a plug-in with this features, where I
can manage categories and articles.

Regards,

Riccardo.

2009/9/25 rtacconi
<rtacconi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
>
> This is my first message, so hello to everybody!
>
> I would like to have a simple intranet with categories and articles
> management. I think to use act_as_tree for the categories and
> act_as_list for the articles, but any article should be connected to
> one category. So in any category I can have one or more articles in a
> list. Do I have to declare a Category class as parent of the list of
> the articles? As you might guess I am a Ruby and Rails rookie.
>
> I would like to know if there is a plug-in with this features, where I
> can manage categories and articles.
Apologies if you have already done this but I recommend newcommers to
look at the rails guides at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
particularly Getting Started and ActiveRecord Associations.  These may
answer some of your questions.

Are you sure you need a _list_ of articles as opposed to just a
collection of them such as would be provided by the normal has_many,
belongs_to relationship?

Colin

Thanks for your help.

On Sep 25, 9:44 am, Colin Law
<clan...-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> 2009/9/25 rtacconi
<rtacc...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
>
>
>
> > This is my first message, so hello to everybody!
>
> > I would like to have a simple intranet with categories and articles
> > management. I think to use act_as_tree for the categories and
> > act_as_list for the articles, but any article should be connected to
> > one category. So in any category I can have one or more articles in a
> > list. Do I have to declare a Category class as parent of the list of
> > the articles? As you might guess I am a Ruby and Rails rookie.
>
> > I would like to know if there is a plug-in with this features, where I
> > can manage categories and articles.
>
> Apologies if you have already done this but I recommend newcommers to
> look at the rails guides athttp://guides.rubyonrails.org/
> particularly Getting Started and ActiveRecord Associations.  These may
> answer some of your questions.
>
I had a look and I wll start soon to read migrations and ActiveRecord
chapters in "Agile Web Development in Rails"
> Are you sure you need a _list_ of articles as opposed to just a
> collection of them such as would be provided by the normal has_many,
> belongs_to relationship?
Let''s say you have some articles and the administrator wants to order
the articles display. Showing the articles using act_as_list is
perfect, since I want to show the articles as and ordered list.
>
> Colin

2009/9/25 rtacconi
<rtacconi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> On Sep 25, 9:44 am, Colin Law
<clan...-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 2009/9/25 rtacconi
<rtacc...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
>>
>>
>>
>> > This is my first message, so hello to everybody!
>>
>> > I would like to have a simple intranet with categories and
articles
>> > management. I think to use act_as_tree for the categories and
>> > act_as_list for the articles, but any article should be connected
to
>> > one category. So in any category I can have one or more articles
in a
>> > list. Do I have to declare a Category class as parent of the list
of
>> > the articles? As you might guess I am a Ruby and Rails rookie.
>>
>> > I would like to know if there is a plug-in with this features,
where I
>> > can manage categories and articles.
>>
>> Apologies if you have already done this but I recommend newcommers to
>> look at the rails guides athttp://guides.rubyonrails.org/
>> particularly Getting Started and ActiveRecord Associations.  These may
>> answer some of your questions.
>>
> I had a look and I wll start soon to read migrations and ActiveRecord
> chapters in "Agile Web Development in Rails"
>> Are you sure you need a _list_ of articles as opposed to just a
>> collection of them such as would be provided by the normal has_many,
>> belongs_to relationship?
>
> Let''s say you have some articles and the administrator wants to
order
> the articles display. Showing the articles using act_as_list is
> perfect, since I want to show the articles as and ordered list.
If the articles have a definite intrinsic sequence that is not
determined by date or other property of the article then acts_as_list
may indeed be appropriate.  Note that acts_as_list is about how the
data is stored in the database rather than just an order of viewing at
some instant.

Colin