# Reg:act\_as\_tree **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 6, 2009, 10:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reg-act-as-tree/169654 "2009-06-06T10:34:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![charan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@charan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/charan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2009, 10:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reg-act-as-tree/169654/1 "2009-06-06T10:34:12Z")
HI am using acts\_as\_tree and yui to generate tree structure, as per the DB is consern for acts\_as\_tree,the parent and child nodes are from one table… i have two different table like ## region table pk name 1 hyderabad 2 chennai 3 bangalore area tabel id name fk 1 madhapur 1 2 hi-tech 1 3 kondapur 1 4 adayar 2 5 ECR road 2 6 anna nagar 2 7 whitefiled 3 8 MGM 3 so i need name in region table as root node and the respective fk names in area table as child nodes(i dont need subchild node )… how can i use acts\_as\_tree for this table,are is there an alternative to do this