We override accessors and we just invoke super to get the original data. So 
really this should work:

    has n, :subjects

    def subjects
      Rails.cache.fetch(id) { super }
    end

Cheers,

Chris


Il giorno 09/feb/2013, alle ore 04:36, Neil C <n...@vidyasource.com> ha scritto:

> I am generating a web page that will ultimately display a lot of 
> content--perhaps something like 50 categories each with 20 subjects each with 
> 10 photos. I am devising a caching strategy both at the database layer and 
> the UI layer, but I had a question about the former I want to pose to the 
> experts here.
> 
> So the association would look something display.categories.subjects.photos. 
> It seems to me just eyeballing that display.categories.subjects will be an 
> expensive call I would like to cache.
> 
> Imagine the following category model:
> 
> class Category
>   include DataMapper::Resource
> 
>   property :id, Serial
>   ...
>   has n, :subjects
> 
>   def subjects
>      Rails.cache.fetch(self.id) { attribute_get(:subjects) #or something }
>   end
> end
> 
> Basically I want to override subjects so that I grab the cache of it if 
> available. Otherwise, execute subjects as it would normally without the 
> override to return the association from a database query.
> 
> However, no matter what I try-- attribute_get, super, various combinations of 
> each--I can't manage to solve this. I really don't want to have a second 
> method to expose the cached association and betray those implementation 
> details to my client code.
> 
> Any ideas on this are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
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