I would agree that this is a nice way to get started with your models, but once you need to do anything beyond the basics, like association extensions for example, even simply renaming the association, then you'll have to define the association anyway.
Nice idea, but I'd rather see this remain as a plugin instead of users getting used to the fact that you don't have to define model associations or provide validations. If all this did was generate the base model with the associations and validations then that would definitely relieve some initial development time and possibily worthy of core inclusion. Andrew On 8/14/06, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Nic, I for one think this is incredibly cool, and would love to see it in Rails 1.2 (as part of core)... Thanks! -- Ernie P. On Aug 8, 2006, at 3:33 AM, Nic Williams wrote: 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 -- Dr Nic Williams http://www.drnicwilliams.com - Ruby/Rails blog skype: nicwilliams (m) +31 62 494 8552 (p) +61 7 3305 7522 (finds me anywhere in the world) (f) +61 7 3305 7572 (sends fax to my email) _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
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