[Rails-core] [ann] Super DRY models - Auto-associations and validations

[Nic Williams]

I've written an ActiveRecord extension that allows Associations to be automatically generated at runtime without requiring "has_many" and "belongs_to" to be defined in the class. The use of has_many vs has_one is determined by the pluralisation of the method call.

Additionally, it uses the :null => false attribute of columns to provide validates_presence_of automatically to models too.

If any of this code is relevant for Core Rails, let me know and I'll extract it from the gem and create a patch for core. The gem has received a good reception on the Ruby + RoR forums.

http://drnicwilliams.com/2006/08/07/ann-dr-nics-magic-models/

Cheers
Nic

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