Hey Shashi, We used to have ActiveResource as part of Rails until Rails 3.x, it was moved out because it wasn't widely used. Although things may have changed a lot in that regard ( in terms of usage of REST consumers ) in recent years but may not be enough.
Cheers, Rishav On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:37 AM Shashi Prabhakar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Rails Core Team: > > I my application development life I find that I am constantly using a fine > gem called HER (http://her-rb.org) in the last several years to consume > REST based content. It creates object models like AR models from REST based > APIs - it is an indispensable gem for working with REST content. The > creator has kept it AR-like that makes it so much easier to deal with in > the RoR framework. > > So my feature suggestion is to bring HER gem into the Rails framework as > ActiveREST. It will be a great complement to ActiveRecord, and allow REST > APIs to be treated quite on a similar footing with Databases and allow a > great more number of people to use it. Also the Rails team can make the HER > gem more Rails like. > > In my view it will fully round out Rails and make it have broader appeal - > because every project these days will consume a REST Api (if not expose > one). I am including the creators in cc. Looking forward to HER gem > becoming a feature of Rails. I think Rails Core team you are going to love > this idea and make many people who struggle to consume REST Apis (that > don't know about HER and roll their own) very happy. > > I am a happy user of Rails since 2006. Love the framework and the > continued cool tremendously useful things you put into it - like the latest > ActionCable in Rails5. It is such a pleasure to use - not having done > anything with web sockets before - it just works. Wonderful, my livelihood > and programmer life has been heaven because of Rails. My deep gratitude to > Rails and Ruby. > > Thanks for listening. Thanks Rails Team+DHH, Rafael Franca et al, and > thank you Her gem creators/contributors, Remi, Ed Jones and FoxPaul > > -Shashi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
