Hi Daniel,
I've been helping Jean-Christophe Michel with the Better Nested Set
plugin (http://opensource.symetrie.com/trac/better_nested_set).
I'm interested in anything that offers efficient management of large
hierarchical data-sets in Rails, so I'd love to see a materialized path
implementation. Regarding development, I would like to share thoughts
and ideas (at a minimum, I suppose it would be good if we tried to keep
the APIs similar). In any case, please keep me updated on what you do.
I'm looking at your DBIx module, but as someone who's never used Perl,
I'm wondering how to generate the documentation (how do you say 'rake
rdoc' in Perl?).
You've probably already looked at Better Nested Set, but if not, you
can install it with:
script/plugin install
svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/betternestedset/trunk
then run 'rake rdoc' in the betternestedset directory.
Cheers,
Krishna
awesome of have a standard API so that you can easily switch between
schemes.
Definitely. Let's plan on it.
changing between the two plugins would automatically convert the tree
behind the scenes. . .
I'm not sure about automagically adding columns to the table, but we've
made the rest of it pretty easy in BetterNestedSet: once you have the
columns, just run a single method and it turns your existing ordinary
(adjacency list) trees into nested sets.
Maybe the best way we could work together now would be to standardize
the API - I knownestedsets pretty well, and we can define an API
that'll offer the flexibility we need for both implementations.
Sounds like a plan. After you get a chance to look over the
BetterNestedSet API, let us know what changes/extensions you might
want. I'm actually playing with some experimental changes to how our
API works, so I'll try to get those committed soon.
Would you like to continue this discussion here, or move it to the
BetterNestedSet mailing list?
(http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/betternestedset-talk)
Cheers, looking forward to hashing it out.
k