From: Tamara Temple <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-06-06T09:02:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Create a nested structure from a CSV

Oli Sanders <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Joel Pearson wrote in post #1111319:
> > You have attributes like "is supervisor". Maybe a Hash isn't the best
> > way to do this. What about a custom class with its own attributes and
> > links?
> >
> 
> Hi Joel,
> Thanks for responding. I had considered something like that but I want
> to generate different views based on the proposed structure.
> 
> I think the nested structure would make that easier, and also help me
> when I need to edit it in forms (eventually).

Actually, I'd go ahead and use ActiveRecord or Sequel with an sqlite
database, which can be memory mapped if you don't want it to persist
across uses. This lets you do ORMish things like:

user.name
user.id
user.supervisor
user.supervisor.name
user.supervisor.supervisor.supervisor.name (and so on)

And if you end up with even more attributes, win.