Working With Rails

Acts As Branched

Should possibly change the name of the plugin, the call is ‘acts_as_branch_leaf’ as it made more sense than acts_as_branched, as the model itself isn’t branched, it is acting as a leaf of the branched tree

Applying acts_as_branch_leaf to a model:

• gives it a has_many association with branchings
• creates a branching with the current branch on object creation
• overrides find and count to only return items from the current branch
• forking of branches by calling branch.fork_at(time_to_fork)

Todo in later versions:

• restoring branches (?)
• add overrides to find and count to ignore the branch, find_without_branch maybe

Schemas:

This requires 2 models and therefor 2 tables, a branch_stems table and branchings table.

create_table :branch_stems do |t|
    t.column :created_on, :datetime
end

create_table :branchings do |t|
    t.column :created_on, :datetime
    t.column :branch_id,  :integer
    t.column :leaf_id,    :integer
    t.column :leaf_type,  :string
end

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