scoped_traversal

Scoped Traversal

A simple way to define next and previous relationships in an ActiveRecord model.

For example, if you have a list of articles, and you want to be able to traverse them with article.next and article.previous.

Installation

Add to your Gemfile and run the bundle command to install it.

gem "scoped_traversal"

Requires Ruby 1.9.2 or later.

Usage

In your model, call rank_by and pass in a column name.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
	traverse_by :score
end

You can then traverse them with the following methods:

@user.next
@user.previous

Namespaces

You can also add an optional namespace, like so:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
   traverse_by :score, :namespace => true
   traverse_by :created_at, :namespace => :oldest
end

You can then traverse them with the following methods:

@user.next_score
@user.previous_score
   
@user.next_oldest
@user.previous_oldest

Development

Questions or problems? Please post them on the issue tracker. You can contribute changes by forking the project and submitting a pull request. You can ensure the tests passing by running bundle and rake.

This gem is created by Wil Gieseler and is under the MIT License.