Recursive finds

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I am trying to supplement and ultimately provide a patch for ‘foreman’
which is an adjunct to puppet.

Essentially, there is a Hosts class which belongs_to Hostgroup and
Hostgroup class has a column called ‘ancestry’ which is actually a
Hostgroup (probably what is referred to as STI but I am not sure) and
thus within Foreman, nesting Hostgroups is not uncommon.

Thus I could have a Host that is called “ServerA”, that belongs to
“WebServer” Hostgroup which has an ancestry (Hostgroup) called “Base”
and for me to find out all of the puppetclasses that host “ServerA”
belongs to, I would have to get a listing of all of the puppetclasses
within the chain of Hostgroups to which ServerA belongs.

So this is my code…

@hosts.each do |host|
@ancestors = Hostgroup.find(host.hostgroup.ancestry) unless
host.hostgroup.ancestry == nil
@ancestors.puppetclasses.each do |anc|
@my_classes[anc.name] += 1
end
end

And this works for me because I am only nesting 1 level but it’s
conceivable that other users would nest many more levels and if my patch
is to be accepted, I undoubtedly have to account for an infinite level
of nesting.

How would I accomplish that?

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Craig W. [email protected]
wrote:

I am trying to supplement and ultimately provide a patch for ‘foreman’ which is
an adjunct to puppet.

Essentially, there is a Hosts class which belongs_to Hostgroup and Hostgroup
class has a column called ‘ancestry’ which is actually a Hostgroup (probably what
is referred to as STI but I am not sure) and thus within Foreman, nesting
Hostgroups is not uncommon.
This is actually the ancestry gem [1] which does most of the heavy
lifting.

end

And this works for me because I am only nesting 1 level but it’s conceivable
that other users would nest many more levels and if my patch is to be accepted, I
undoubtedly have to account for an infinite level of nesting.

How would I accomplish that?

look for the sort_by_ancestry method

see

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[1] - GitHub - stefankroes/ancestry: Organise ActiveRecord model into a tree structure