class Node < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_nested_set has_many :pages, :order => "revision ASC" belongs_to :head, :class_name => "Page", :foreign_key => :head_id # Callbacks after_create :initialize_empty_page # Class methods # Returns a page for a given node. If no revision is supplied, it returns # the last / current one. If a specific revision number is supplied, the # corresponding revision of that page is returned. Get the current / latest # revision with -1. It raises an Argument error if the revision is not a # Fixnum def self.find_page path, revision = -1 unless revision.class == Fixnum raise ArgumentError, "revision must be a Fixnum" end node = Node.find_by_unique_name(path) if node case revision when -1 return node.head else return node.pages.find_by_revision revision end end nil end # Instance Methods def draft # check if there is a page which has a nil :published_at column # if there is one - it is considered a draft else a new revision is # created if draft = pages.find_by_published_at(nil) draft else # make a new fresh page with node reference draft = Page.create( head.attributes ) end draft end def publish_draft! self.head = self.draft self.save! self.head.published_at = Time.now self.head.save! end # returns an array with all parts of a unique_name rather than a string def unique_path unique_name.split("/") rescue unique_name end # returns array with pages up to root excluding root def path_to_root parent.nil? && [slug] || parent.path_to_root.push(slug) end def update_unique_name path = self.path_to_root[1..-1] self.unique_name = path.join("/") self.save end protected # Creates an empty page, associates it to the given node and sets its # published_at date so it isn't considered a draft. Look up the draft # method! def initialize_empty_page if self.pages.empty? self.pages.create! end end end