Forum: Rails Engines development Delaying table attribute load using ActiveRecord

Hi all,

I came accross the following problem lately: I got a table with several 
BLOB fields (Oracle DB) and I have ActiveRecord reading those fields 
whenever records are loaded using finder methods. This behavior is just 
fine in 99.9% of the time, but considering BLOB data is not small, it is 
considerably slowing down search access :(.

So basically, I thought about building a :has_one relationship and add 
an extra table table holding BLOB value so as to cope with the pb. I 
found it painfull and not very 'RoRy', so I decided to hack 
ActiveRecord::Base so as to delay the attribute load... and it works ! 
Attributes are dynamicaly loaded whenever client application accesses 
them explicitely.

Syntax looks like the following:

class A < ActiveRecord::Base
  delay_attributes :foo, :bar
...
end

Now I got two questions:
 - as I am new Rails (and Ruby as well): I am wondering if I am missing 
something concerning ActiveRecord usage (meaning this hack is useless),
 - if this patch is a good idea, I'd like to submit it to the 
maintainers of the project, but I don't know what is the exact procedure 
to do so.

Thx

This post is probably more suitable for the main rails list.

- james

On 4/1/06, Laurent Lecigne <llecigne@free.fr> wrote:
> found it painfull and not very 'RoRy', so I decided to hack
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Done.

Thx

James Adam wrote:
> This post is probably more suitable for the main rails list.
> 
> - james
> 
> On 4/1/06, Laurent Lecigne <llecigne@free.fr> wrote:
>> found it painfull and not very 'RoRy', so I decided to hack
>>
>>
>>
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>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>> _______________________________________________
>> engine-developers mailing list
>> engine-developers@lists.rails-engines.org
>> http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine...
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