# Dojo Tree **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 6, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dojo-tree/125169 "2008-01-06T15:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankit2584)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dojo-tree/125169/1 "2008-01-06T15:56:40Z")
Hello, I need to implement a drag and drop tree in rails. I saw the demo of the dojo tree and that is something that i wwould like to have. Can anyone please tell me how do i make that tree by getting the data from the DATABASE table and not from the file as given in the dojo example. Thank you. Regards, Anks ---
**Author:** ![ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankit2584)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 10:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dojo-tree/125169/2 "2008-01-07T10:18:12Z")
That’s impossible to answer in any specific way without knowing what demo you’re talking about and knowing your data’s structure in the database, but I can guess at generalities: - the demo is parsing the file and putting it in some kind of structure - this structure is then fed through some code and handed to Dojo So, for Rails, you have two problems: - using Rails associations and finders to extract data from the database and manipulate it into a form that can be fed through some code and handed to Dojo. - Running Dojo on Rails. For the first problem you’ll have to look at the structure of the tree in the example and attempt to replicate that structure (or, alternatively, cut out the intermediate code and look for a way to hand the manipulated tree to Dojo directly). For the second, there is at least one project (Dojo Toolbawks) to let you run Dojo with Rails. -faisal ---
**Author:** ![ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankit2584)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dojo-tree/125169/3 "2008-01-07T18:53:06Z")
Have the model that describes the content you want to sort uses acts\_as\_tree, then use the example code from this page [http://dev.oriontransfer.co.nz/SortableTree/](http://dev.oriontransfer.co.nz/SortableTree/) to figure out how to use the Scriptaculous library. I don’t know if the most current Rails install version of dragdrop.js works - when I implemented this on my site a year or so ago, I needed to use the dragdrop.js from the example. ---
**Author:** ![ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankit2584)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dojo-tree/125169/4 "2008-01-08T13:13:44Z")
Cynthia K. wrote: > Have the model that describes the content you want to sort uses > acts\_as\_tree, then use the example code from this page > [http://dev.oriontransfer.co.nz/SortableTree/](http://dev.oriontransfer.co.nz/SortableTree/) to figure out how to use > the > Scriptaculous library. I don’t know if the most current Rails install > version of dragdrop.js works - when I implemented this on my site a year > or > so ago, I needed to use the dragdrop.js from the example. Hello, I saw the demo and this is what i would like to have. But unfortunately i could not find the source code. Do you have any idea where i can find the source code for the sortable tree. ---
**Author:** ![ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankit2584)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 10:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dojo-tree/125169/5 "2008-05-21T10:20:04Z")
Hello Do you find the source code of example or maybe another simular solution?