Should implement or document double ancestry (father+mother)

stefankroes / ancestry

Organise ActiveRecord model into a tree structure

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Should implement or document double ancestry (father+mother) #587

Closed palladius closed 1 year ago

palladius commented 2 years ago

Hi, your gem looks amazing! Very well documented. However, I can't find in the README a trace of "mother/father" ancestry I need for my use case. I would presume you implemented a SINGLE parent (tree) rather than DOUBLE parent (family tree). If so, no problem, but I would point it out in the README.md and maybe add some pointers on how to solve that (eg, add TWO columns for a single model would work? with mother_id and father_id?)

Thanks in advance for your reply.

kbrock commented 2 years ago

Hello @palladius

We currently only support a single tree using the ancestry column. I do have plans to try and make that more flexible, but it is very very far off in the future.

If you have ideas how to word the documentation, please put in a PR for the README.

Thanks