On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Aaron Patterson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:14:31AM -0300, Emilio Tagua wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> This email is about Marcin Raczkowski's project for Ruby Summer Of
>> Code (http://rubysoc.org/projects): Project #12: ActiveRecord Identity
>> Map
>>
>> You can find the current implementation in my Rails repo (identity_map
>> branch): http://github.com/miloops/rails/commits/identity_map
>>
>> I was assigned as the mentor project and I've also invested time
>> working on it, since I find its very important for all of us using
>> Rails to have this implemented.
>>
>> Several days ago, and after lots of feedback, I sent a pull request to
>> rails/master as José Valim suggested:
>> http://github.com/rails/rails/pull/76
>>
>> Some key features that were lately implemented:
>>
>> - A middleware that wraps each request into a new map, if it's
>> disabled then no middleware is loaded.
>> - IM is enabled by default: to disable it use
>> config.active_record.identity_map = false
>> - IM is flushed on tests setup, this was added to
>> ActiveSupport::TestCase, if you are using Rspec, you should try with:
>>
>> before(:each) do
>>   ActiveRecord::IdentityMap.clear
>> end
>>
>> - A WeakHash implementation was included in ActiveSupport, if you are
>> using jRuby Weakling library will be used as WeakHash.
>>
>> I've been using a script to test resources, which is the most
>> important feature that IM will bring among objects consistency,
>> although speed has increased in some cases is not the goal of IM.
>>
>> Results from the script are very promising:
>>
>> http://gist.github.com/636470
>>
>> I would love to get more feedback, if you try it feel free to comment
>> on the pull request, reply this email, or contact me by email or IM at
>> miloops at gmail.
>
> It concerns me that we're modifying existing tests.  Specifically this
> commit:
>
>  4db9dca55e3acc2c59f252eb83ecb83db5f4b81b
>
>  http://github.com/miloops/rails/commit/4db9dca55e3acc2c59f252eb83ecb83db5f4b81b
>
> It modifies existing tests in this file:
>
>  activerecord/test/cases/associations/belongs_to_associations_test.rb
>
> Why was this change made?  I would hope we could integrate IdentityMap
> without modifying existing AR tests.

Hey,

I reverted that commit and fixed code to work as expected in those
cases. I agree with you that existing tests shouldn't change.


>
> --
> Aaron Patterson
> http://tenderlovemaking.com/
>

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