the-teacher/the_sortable_tree

book = {
  'Programs' => {
    'Lexical Structure' => [
      'Comments',
      'Documentation',
      'Whitespace',
      'Literals',
      'Identifiers'
    ]
  }
}

def create_hub user, title
  obj          = user.send(:hubs).new
  obj.title    = title
  obj.hub_type = :book
  obj.state    = :published
  obj.save!
  obj
end

def build_page_tree user, book, parent_obj = nil
  book.each_pair do |key, value|
    obj = create_hub(user, key)
    obj.move_to_child_of(parent_obj) if parent_obj
    parent_obj = obj

    if value.is_a? Hash
      build_page_tree(user, value, parent_obj)
    end

    if value.is_a? Array
      value.each do |key|
        obj = create_hub(user, key)
        obj.move_to_child_of(parent_obj)
      end
    end

  end
end

build_page_tree(User.first, book)

Hub.roots.of_(:book).last.self_and_descendants