As I couldn’t find the library for working with external resources in
Rails, I made this gem:
A long time ago I thought that that’s what ActiveResource id for, but:
- There is no system of associations between ActiveResource models and
ActiveRecord models - ActiveResource has a lot of features related to modifying external
resources, but I never found it particularly useful. Usually I just want
to
“enrich” my models with some content fetched from some (usually
internal)
REST API.
To make it more clear, what you can use it for, here’s an example:
class User < ApplicationRecord
include Integrative::Integrator
integrates :relation, requires: [:with]
end
class Relation
include Integrative::Integrated
def self.integrative_find(ids, integration)
Friend.where(user_id: integration.call_options[:with].id,
other_user_id: ids)
end
end
User.where(public: true).integrate(:relation, with:
current_user).limit(1000)
The above code would fetch Friend models only once.
All feedback is welcome.
Krzysiek