Acts as nested - Enforcing a Max Level

Hello, I’m currently using the gem ‘nested_set’ for comment threading.

What I want to do is prevent the comment level from going more than 2 levels deep. What I tired doing was something like this:

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base

before_save :ensure_max_nestedset_level

private

We don’t want comments to go more than 2 levels deep. That’s overkill

def ensure_max_nestedset_level

if self.level > 2

self.level = 2

end

end

end

But it looks like you cant set a level only obtain an objects level. With the goal being to enforce a MAX of 2 levels deep for comment threading. Can anyone suggest a way to enforce that from happening?

The use case being:

Comment Main (level 0)

Comment Reply (level 1)

Comment Reply about XXXX (level 2)

When a user replies to the last one (about XXXX) I don’t want the comment to be set to a level of 3, I want to cap that at 2.

Ideas? Thanks