# Tree view

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tree-view/105120>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 25, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tree-view/105120 "2007-05-25T23:03:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damaris)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tree-view/105120/1 "2007-05-25T23:03:54Z")

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Hi you all,

I’m searching for a happy plugin or generator to create a tree view for  
data which don’t come from ActiveRecord, but from a file.  
I’ve seen TreeView [1] can save me 😃  
Have you use it?  
Do you have any other idea?  
Thanks

[1] [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/LiveTree](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/LiveTree)

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**Author:** ![damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@damaris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/damaris)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tree-view/105120/2 "2007-05-27T01:30:06Z")

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Damaris F. wrote:

> Hi you all,
> 
> I’m searching for a happy plugin or generator to create a tree view for  
> data which don’t come from ActiveRecord, but from a file.  
> I’ve seen TreeView [1] can save me 😃  
> Have you use it?  
> Do you have any other idea?  
> Thanks
> 
> [1] [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/LiveTree](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/LiveTree)

Well, I’ve already downloaded it and, even though I’ve downloaded the  
examples, I cannot certainly know how can I handle it to manage non-AR  
data. The example for non-AR data in the livetree examples has an array  
with data in the controller; how can I manage to do the stuff from a  
real non-AR-model class?

Can anybody help me? If so, I can explain in detail which my problems  
are.

Thanks ☹