You may have used the Active Record “acts_as” extensions that ship with Rails, such as acts_as_list, or those added by third-party plugins, such as acts_as_attachment. In this post I’m going to cover how to use a new plugin for Rails by Andrew Bruno, called acts_as_treemap. What is a Treemap? A Treemap is a diagram that allows you to easily visualize hierarchical information, or trees. The first t