Ancestry allows the records of a ActiveRecord model to be organized in a tree structure, using a single, intuitively formatted database column. It exposes all the standard tree structure relations (ancestors, parent, root, children, siblings, descendants) and all of them can be fetched in a single sql query. Additional features are named_scopes, integrity checking, integrity restoration, arrangement of (sub)tree into hashes and different strategies for dealing with orphaned records.

Required Ruby Version

>= 1.8.7

Authors

Stefan Kroes, Keenan Brock

Versions

  1. 5.1.0 March 08, 2026 (28 KB)
  2. 5.0.0 February 09, 2026 (26.5 KB)
  3. 4.3.3 April 10, 2023 (24.5 KB)
  4. 4.3.2 March 26, 2023 (24.5 KB)
  5. 4.3.1 March 20, 2023 (24.5 KB)
  6. 3.0.5 November 06, 2018 (18 KB)
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