PassiveRecord

PassiveRecord provides ActiveRecord-like behavior for static, non-database models.

PassiveRecord was developed by Art of Mission, Inc. for Sharp Sync, a new product by Ministry Centered Technologies

Installation

Download PassiveRecord from Github: github.com/artofmission/passive_record

Install using Git Submodules:

  git submodule add http://github.com/artofmission/passive_record vendor/plugins/passive_record
  git submodule init
  git submodule update

Install with Rails’ plugin installer

  ./script/plugin install git://github.com/artofmission/passive_record.git

Example

  class Name < PassiveRecord::Base
    define_fields [:first_name, :middle_name, :last_name]
  end

…will create a new Name model with id, address, and location attributes.

  class Person < PassiveRecord::Base
    has_many :names
  end

  @person = Person.new(:names => [Name.new(:first_name => "Dima", :last_name => "Dozen")])

This would a Person object that has many names. You can now access the names hash just like you would an ActiveRecord object.

  @person.names #=> [#<Name:0x2031824 @last_name="Dozen", @first_name="Dima">]

You can serialize a PassiveRecord object into another database object for storage:

  class Address < PassiveRecord::Base
    define_fields [:street, :city, :state, :postal_code, :country]
  end

  class Company < ActiveRecord
    serialize :address
  end

  @company.address = Address.new(:street1 => "123 4th St", :city => "Wellington", :country => "NZ")

Resources for Non-ActiveRecord models

• railscasts.com/episodes/121-non-active-record-model

Due Credit

• Ministry Centered Technologies created the need
• Ryan Heneise of Art of Mission, Inc. wrote the code

Contributors

• felipemesquita (github.com/felipemesquita)

Copyright © 2008 Ryan Heneise, released under the MIT license