Hey, You might want to give https://github.com/postmodern/dm-is-read_only a try
cheers snusnu On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 20:12, bvdb <[email protected]> wrote: > A developer sometimes has to access and present data that existed > before his application. Common practice is for a database > administrator to define a database view (with a CREATE VIEW sql > command, not to be confused with the V in MVC) and give the > developer access to this. > A SELECT on a view follows exactly the same syntax as on a normal > table. > But UPDATE/INSERT is in most cases not possible or desireable on a > view, > and will fail - so a view is read-only. > > Now having some experience with databases but little with RoR I > couldn't find a "read-only attribute" in DataMapper, nor in > ActiveRecords. > Without knowing that a view/table/relation is read-only the ORM could > generate UPDATEs that produce errors, and leave the user wondering > why. > It makes also sense in some cases to define a table read-only for a > model even it is fully accessible by the framework. > Is it possible to define read-only access in Datamapper? > If not, is there another RoR ORM with this feature? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DataMapper" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en.
