Class constants

Rails
1

If I have:

@name = ‘users’

And I want to do

@name.singularize.camelize.constantize.find(1)

It seems I cannot do so unless the constant User is already present in
ObjectSpace. Is there a dynamic way around this?

I’m embarrassed to admit this is my best idea so far:

name = @name.singularize
open( “#{ RAILS_ROOT }/tmp/cache/#{ name }.rb”, ‘w’ ) do |f|
f.puts “class #{ name.camelize } < ActiveRecord::Base\n
set_table_name "#{ @name }"\nend\n”
end
require “#{ RAILS_ROOT }/tmp/cache/#{ name }.rb”
name = name.camelize.constantize

It works fine but then I have to do:

Dir.glob(“#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/*.rb”).each { |f| require f }

at the end to restore sanity to my Rails app.

I realize I can add some more checks to see if the faked model file is
already there and all, but please someone tell me there’s a better
way.

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

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On Jan 14, 12:44 pm, “Greg D.” [email protected] wrote:

If I have:

@name = ‘users’

And I want to do

@name.singularize.camelize.constantize.find(1)

It seems I cannot do so unless the constant User is already present in
ObjectSpace. Is there a dynamic way around this?

require @name ?

///ark

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On Jan 14, 12:44 pm, “Greg D.” [email protected] wrote:

If I have:

@name = ‘users’

And I want to do

@name.singularize.camelize.constantize.find(1)

How about:

require @name.singularize

///ark

4

On Jan 14, 2008 2:56 PM, Mark W. [email protected] wrote:

require @name ?

That works fine if you have the model file already.

Please re-read my post… or not.

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

5

On 14 Jan 2008, at 20:44, Greg D. wrote:

ObjectSpace. Is there a dynamic way around this?

Is there no constant just because the user.rb file has not been loaded
or is there no user.rb file
If the former it should just work, if the latter:

klass = Class.new(ActiveRecord::Base)
Object.const_set name.camelize, klass
klass.reset_table_name

klass.find :first

Fred

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 02:44:47PM -0600, Greg D. wrote:

It works fine but then I have to do:

Dir.glob("#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/*.rb").each { |f| require f }

at the end to restore sanity to my Rails app.

I realize I can add some more checks to see if the faked model file is
already there and all, but please someone tell me there’s a better
way.

If I understand correctly, you are looking for a way to wrap an
ActiveRecord model around a DB table given the name of the DB table
without
(necessarily) creating a .rb file for it a priori. If that’s accurate, I
think you want this:

name = Object.const_set(@name.singularize.camelize,
Class.new(ActiveRecord::Base))

Greg D.
–Greg

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On Jan 14, 1:06 pm, “Greg D.” [email protected] wrote:

On Jan 14, 2008 2:56 PM, Mark W. [email protected] wrote:

require @name ?

That works fine if you have the model file already.

Please re-read my post… or not.

I did reread your post, which is why I deleted my message about 30
seconds after I posted it. :slight_smile:

///ark

8

On Jan 14, 2008 3:07 PM, Frederick C. [email protected]
wrote:

klass = Class.new(ActiveRecord::Base)
Object.const_set name.camelize, klass
klass.reset_table_name

klass.find :first

That’s it. Thanks.

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/