ActsAsResource

ActsAsResource combines ActiveRecord and ActiveResource features in one class.

Example

class Carrot acts_as_resource self.site = 'http://localhost:3000'

belongs_to :bunny

validates_presence_of :color validates_uniqueness_of :color validates_length_of :color, :within => 2..23, :if => lambda { |c| c.color && !c.color.empty? } validates_format_of :color, :with => /[\w\s]+$/, :if => lambda { |c| c.color && !c.color.empty? }

before_create :please_call_me_before_create def self.validate logger.debug("VALIDATE #{color}") end

def please_call_me_before_create logger.debug("Ohhh, so you called me..") end
end

Usage

For convention each operation is local unless specified with :remote flag.

carrot = Carrot.find(23) # => local request carrot = Carrot.find(23, :remote => false) # => local request carrot = Carrot.find(23, :remote => true) # => remote request

Carrot.create(:color => 'orange') # => create local Carrot.create(:color => 'orange', :remote => true) # => create remote

Prerequisites

For 2.0 railists: no problem guys! For old 1.2.x people you should live in the edge, cause ActiveResource is needed.

Install

Rails 2.1.x $ ./script/plugin install git://github.com/jodosha/acts-as-resource.git

Rails <= 2.0.x $ ./script/plugin install http://dev.23labs.net/svn/rails/plugins/acts_as_resource

Uninstall

$ ./script/plugin remove acts_as_resource

Common Issues

• Actually ActsAsResource doesn't support Single Table Inheritance.

• Sometimes, when class relations are used, ActiveRecord generates a warning like:

  warning: toplevel constant Bunny referenced by Carrot::Bunny

Contribute

• Check out the code and test it: $ git clone git://github.com/jodosha/acts-as-resource.git $ rake resource

• Create a ticket to: http://dev.23labs.net/rails/trac.cgi

• Create a patch and add as attachement to the ticket.

• The SVN repo has been deprecated in favor of the Git one.

Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Luca Guidi - http://lucaguidi.com, released under the MIT license