Sergio Ruiz wrote:
> is it possible to have a model be belong to itself?
> 
> say i have a category, and the category can be a subcategory of another
> category (or it might be a parent category)..

http://github.com/collectiveidea/awesome_nested_set/

> is this possible, and does it make sense?

Yes, it makes sense.

> something like:
> 
> class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
>    has_many: categories
> end
> 
> i kinda think it would make more sense to use a subcategory model.. but
> the system i am deriving from (which was written in php) is combining
> the models..

No. As you'll see from the above plugin using one model does make more 
sense.
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