Jason Stirk and I are working on a rewrite of Active Resource at Railsconf. 
We're looking for help too, so if you're here come catch up with us and we'll 
talk.
On Monday, 16 May 2011 at 11:14 AM, Prem Sichanugrist wrote:
I've extracted it to another project and remove it from the Rails source 
yesterday. I sent the pull request and got closed right away.
> 
> So it seems like someone has to maintain it.
> 
> On May 16, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Nick Urban wrote:
> 
> > So this brings me back to my initial question: who is in charge of
> > this right now? If we wanted to make a gem, as everyone seems to be
> > suggesting, how would the transition happen?
> > 
> > On May 13, 7:49 pm, Guillermo Iguaran <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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-Pr...
> > > 
> > > > > —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
> > > 
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