I totally agree, ActiveResource needs to be resurrected either within or out of the framework as independent project.
There is even a very interesting pull request (to add initial support for associations) waiting for review: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/230 -- Guillermo Iguaran On Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Nicolás Sanguinetti wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Ryan BIgg <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm working with ActiveResource at the moment and I do find it a bit lacking > > personally. Having to implement the find_by_* methods myself is one of my > > prime annoyances at the moment. > > Perhaps a group of people could get together and work on fixing up the > > annoyances people have with it? > > It'd be nice to get some input from the core team on this, but I've > always seen ActiveResource as the "almost unused" part of rails. It's > useful (mostly) when you have another rails app providing the web > service, and that's not always the case (when you don't, you usually > need to add enough glue around that it ends up being easier to use > something else.) > > Has the core team thought about splitting ActiveResource out of the > main rails framework, as ActionWebService did a while back? > > -foca > > > On Friday, 13 May 2011 at 9:14 AM, Paul Campbell wrote: > > > > ActiveResource has always promised great things, but it's still > > something of a dream. > > > > I'd love to see some progress. Particularly against the context of > > things like Paul Dix's book > > http://www.amazon.com/Service-Oriented-Design-Rails-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321659368 > > > > —P > > > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Nick Urban <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't have a good idea of the pros and cons of turning Active > > Resource into a gem, but if that were to happen, it does seem like > > Active Resource might become more free to evolve quickly and > > independently of the rest of Rails. Perhaps someone who is more > > knowledgeable could comment further. > > > > Nick > > > > On May 12, 3:54 pm, Prem Sichanugrist <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [Disclaimer: I'm not a core team member] > > > > I think if you would, It'd be great if you'd fork it and maintain it. I > > don't really see much effort to it either, and I don't know how to *patch* > > it since I'm not using it regularly. > > > > I think I'd then try to convince the core team to remove it, and then > > suggest people to use that gem instead. > > > > - Prem > > > > On 12 พ.ค. 2554, at 17:49, Nick Urban wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There are a number of additional features I required for a current > > project. I was able to solve some of these by using "Reactive > > Resource" (https://github.com/justinweiss/reactive_resource) but many > > I had to implement as override of various sorts. It seems like a > > better solution would be to build some more flexibility into Active > > Resource itself. > > > > I notice that Active Resource hasn't really changed since 3.0.0. Is > > anybody working on this right now? Is there a maintainer I should talk > > to regarding potential patches? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nick > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Paul Campbell > > [email protected] > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > web http://hypertiny.ie > > blog http://www.pabcas.com > > twitter http://www.twitter.com/paulca > > github http://www.github.com/paulca > > phone +353 87 914 8162 > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. 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