I've been sitting on an ActiveResource patch for a few weeks, waiting to get some feedback from David. But, I see other folks like Jeremy are starting to use it, so I committed my patch:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/4890 It gets all the basic operations in working order, and adds support for prefixes. I wasn't quite sure how to pull this off. Right now, I'm using a route like syntax: # See the CHANGELOG # rails routing code map.resources :posts do |post| post.resources :comments end # ActiveResources class Post < ActiveResource::Base self.site = "http://37s.sunrise.i:3000/"; end class Comment < ActiveResource::Base self.site = "http://37s.sunrise.i:3000/posts/:post_id/"; end @post = Post.find 5 @comments = Comment.find :all, :post_id => @post.id @comment = Comment.new({:body => 'hello world'}, {:post_id => @post.id}) @comment.save One thought I've had is splitting the prefix options from the attributes automatically. @comment = Comment.new({:body => 'hello world'}, {:post_id => @post.id}) becomes @comment = Comment.new(:body => 'hello world', :post_id => @post.id) Obviously, ActiveResource is still very raw. I wouldn't advise it's use unless you're going to keep on top of its development. If this prefix stuff works, here are a few ideas I had on extending it: class Post < ActiveResource::Base self.site = "http://37s.sunrise.i:3000/"; has_many :comments end class Comment < ActiveResource::Base belongs_to :post # sets site/prefix from post end @post.comments.create(:body => '....') @comment.post.title Feel free to poke around and let us know what you think. Keep in mind, ActiveResource isn't a general XML web service framework. It's merely the client version of simply_restful. Think of it as an added bonus for following the restful conventions. -- Rick Olson http://weblog.techno-weenie.net http://mephistoblog.com _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
