Parent/child relationship for pages

[ryanburnette]

Pages are going to have the ability to be in a parent/child relationship. I want to be able to arrange them in a hierarchy. I wonder if Rails has a built-in way to manage this relationship, or if I should manually keep track of a parent field for pages then display accordingly.

[ryanburnette]

I was thinking about this and realized that the parent/child relationship is further complicated by the routing requirements.

[ryanburnette]

It looks like Self Joins are worth looking into for this.

Actually, nope.

[ryanburnette]

#in config/routes.rb
get '*', to: "my_controller#action"

#in app/controllers/my_controller.rb
def action
  path_part = path.split('/')
  valid_path = true
  path_parts.reverse.each do |part|

    if part is not parent
       render status: 404
       valid_path = false
    end
  end
  raise self
  render text: [self.inspect, path_part], headers: {"Content-Type" => "text/html"}, status: "400"
end

#NOTE
gem 'better-errors', group: :development