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Asked: May 23, 20262026-05-23T13:29:50+00:00 2026-05-23T13:29:50+00:00

The ancestry gem has a lot of methods to navigate the tree structure. You

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The ancestry gem has a lot of methods to navigate the tree structure. You can do Model.roots to show all root elements etc. How do opposite? – return newest child for each tree structure.

I thought about adding an extra column to my model (latest/boolean) and then do some logic with after save filters etc. However this feels a bit clumsy. :/

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    2026-05-23T13:29:51+00:00Added an answer on May 23, 2026 at 1:29 pm

    Maybe you can hack something together with the Class#inherited hook, like updating an attribute of the parent model on creation of the new subclass:

    http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Class.html#M000177

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