# Problems with acts\_as\_tree---urgent need help **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 31, 2008, 8:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-acts-as-tree-urgent-need-help/133397 "2008-03-31T08:23:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fries88)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 8:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-acts-as-tree-urgent-need-help/133397/1 "2008-03-31T08:23:11Z")
Hi, Does anyone know if there is any tutorials about act\_as\_tree ? Or can anyone provide step-by-step method of using acts\_as\_tree? Have tried looking for answers but kept getting “NoMethodError: undefined method `acts\_as\_tree’”. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fries88)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-acts-as-tree-urgent-need-help/133397/2 "2008-03-31T08:32:23Z")
Did you install it properly? acts\_as\_tree has been taken out of rails core and moved to a plugin, so you might not have it installed. On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:53 PM, user splash \< removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote: > ## Thanks > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > – Ryan B. > **[frozenplague.net](http://www.frozenplague.net)** > > This domain may be for sale! Feel free to add me to MSN and/or GTalk as this email. ---
**Author:** ![fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fries88)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 8:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-acts-as-tree-urgent-need-help/133397/3 "2008-03-31T08:41:58Z")
Ryan B. wrote: > Did you install it properly? acts\_as\_tree has been taken out of rails > core > and moved to a plugin, so you might not have it installed. > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:53 PM, user splash \< > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote: > > > ## Thanks > > > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > > > > > – > Ryan B. > [http://www.frozenplague.net](http://www.frozenplague.net) > Feel free to add me to MSN and/or GTalk as this email. Hi, How do I check if it is installed properly? If its not installed properly how or what are the steps to do so? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fries88)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-acts-as-tree-urgent-need-help/133397/4 "2008-03-31T11:01:28Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On 31 Mar 2008, at 07:41, user splash wrote: > > > > to MSN and/or GTalk as this email. > > > > Hi, > > > > How do I check if it is installed properly? If its not installed > > properly how or what are the steps to do so? > > Well if you have a folder called acts\_as\_plugin in vendor/rails it’s > probably ok, if it isn’t then it’s definitely not (you can get it from > [http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/plugins/acts\_as\_tree/](http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/plugins/acts_as_tree/)) > > Fred Thanks a lot it worked =) ---
**Author:** ![fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fries88)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-acts-as-tree-urgent-need-help/133397/5 "2008-03-31T10:56:14Z")
On 31 Mar 2008, at 07:41, user splash wrote: > > to MSN and/or GTalk as this email. > > Hi, > > How do I check if it is installed properly? If its not installed > properly how or what are the steps to do so? Well if you have a folder called acts\_as\_plugin in vendor/rails it’s probably ok, if it isn’t then it’s definitely not (you can get it from [http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/plugins/acts\_as\_tree/](http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/plugins/acts_as_tree/)) Fred ---
**Author:** ![fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fries88)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-acts-as-tree-urgent-need-help/133397/6 "2008-04-01T06:25:38Z")
Figured it out. I had to add the plugin name ‘acts\_as\_tree’ to config.plugins in my config/environment.rb file. ---
**Author:** ![fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fries88)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-acts-as-tree-urgent-need-help/133397/7 "2008-04-01T06:20:57Z")
On Mar 31, 4:55 am, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Well if you have a folder called acts\_as\_plugin in vendor/rails it’s > probably ok, if it isn’t then it’s definitely not (you can get it fromhttp://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/plugins/acts\_as\_tree/) I don’t have a directory vendor/rails at all. I do have vendor/ plugin. This project is an upgrade from 1.2.6 to 2.0.2. Note however that when I create a new project, e.g. “rails newproject”, the newproject/vendor directory there does not have a rails directory either. Without a vendor/rails directory, I too get the "undefined method: acts\_as\_tree’ error. If I create such a directory, I can’t even start the web server. I have removed and then reinstalled the acts\_as\_tree plugin, using the ./script/plugin install acts\_as\_tree syntax. What am I missing? steven ---
**Author:** ![fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@fries88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fries88)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-acts-as-tree-urgent-need-help/133397/8 "2008-04-01T17:20:09Z")
I could be mistaken, but I believe that acts\_as\_tree will be located in vendor/plugins (not vendor/rails) when installed properly. Creating an empty vendor/rails directly will definitely cause you problems because your app will look for rails there instead of the standard system location. When it doesn’t find it, it won’t start. Anyway, on my machine with rails 2.0.2, the usual ‘ruby script/plugin install acts\_as\_tree’ put it into the vendor/rails directory. -Kyle On Mar 31, 11:25 pm, “Steven D. Arnold” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)