Ancestree
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Ancestree is a simple Rails 3 plugin that makes it easy to automatically inherit attributes from a parent object.

Ancestree makes a few assumptions about the objects that will be inheriting attributes -- namely, objects should be in a tree-like structure, with each object responding to '#parent' up the tree, with the top-level objects returning nil for parent.


Example
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Let's assume you have a Node model in your Rails app and that Node objects each have a parent. You want Nodes to be "disabled" if it or any of its parents are disabled:

class Node < ActiveRecord::Base
  include InheritAncestorAttributes
  
  belongs_to :parent, :class_name => 'Node'
  
  inherit_ancestor_attributes :disabled?
end 


Copyright (c) 2010 Brian Rose, released under the MIT license