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
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  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