Added ability to set item positions directly (e.g. In a form)

[dubroe]

I'm working on an e-commerce site and one aspect of the site is that vendors are able to manipulate their menus. Here is an example of a test menu: https://skitch.com/dubroe/86en1/rhubs-menu-creator-test.

When a menu item is clicked, the vendor is presented with a form in which he can update the menu item attributes, including the item's position in the list:
https://skitch.com/dubroe/86ena/rhubs-edit-menu-item-test
https://skitch.com/dubroe/86edt/screen-shot-2012-06-02-at-1.58.03-pm

Before this patch, doing so messed everything up. Say I had 8 items in the menu, and I wanted to move the item in position 6 to position 4, this would end up with the positions being: 1,2,3,4,4,5,7,8. Basically the other positions weren't updated as they should be.

I've added an "after_update :update_positions" callback which checks to see if two items have the same position, and if they do, update the positions using the already existing "shuffle_positions_on_intermediate_items" function.

I had to make a small change to that function so that you can pass in an ID to ignore, so that the recently changed position doesn't get changed right after it was set.

Please let me know if you have any questions or issues with my code. I'm happy to make any modifications that you suggest. Overall though I think this is an important feature to add to this gem as without it lists are vulnerable to being corrupted if people manually update item positions.

Thanks,

~Elan Dubrofsky

[dubroe]

Did you get a chance to read this by any chance? Curious to know your thoughts.

[swanandp]

I didn't get time to try it out, but I am going to merge it and review later! Thanks for contributing!

[zhengjia]

@dubroe @swanandp
It seems this pull request causes a problem when you have a scope in the list. For example acts_as_list :scope => :category. I have to downgrade the gem to 0.16 to get it working correctly

[dubroe]

Haven't had a chance to look at this yet. @swanandp and @zhengjia do either of you have any insight into why it's breaking? @zhengjia any chance you can share some code to make it easier for me to recreate and then debug?

[zhengjia]

@swanandp and @dubroe
This is a failing test: zhengjia@3df5412

  1) Failure:
test_reordering(ScopedListTest) [/Users/zjia/code/acts_as_list/test/test_list.rb:365]:
<[4, 1, 2, 3]> expected but was
<[4, 1, 1, 2]>.

[swanandp]

@zhengjia Thanks for following up on this, I am on it now.

[dubroe]

Ok great. Let me know if you'd like me to take a crack.