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Introduce a new latest_downloads plugin to manage active and shortcut for attachments.
Add a table for attachment active/shortcut data.
Move existing active-handler code into the new plugin (but still using the "old" active column in the attachments table).  Note the files_controller stuff doesn't actually work here.

acts_as_tree
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Specify this +acts_as+ extension if you want to model a tree structure by providing a parent association and a children
association. This requires that you have a foreign key column, which by default is called +parent_id+.

  class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
    acts_as_tree :order => "name"
  end

  Example:
  root
   \_ child1
        \_ subchild1
        \_ subchild2

  root      = Category.create("name" => "root")
  child1    = root.children.create("name" => "child1")
  subchild1 = child1.children.create("name" => "subchild1")

  root.parent   # => nil
  child1.parent # => root
  root.children # => [child1]
  root.children.first.children.first # => subchild1

Copyright (c) 2007 David Heinemeier Hansson, released under the MIT license