Hi, I hoping to find/write an ActiveRecord backend which stores each record as a file in a directory, rather than as a row in a table in a database. I'm not concerned about scaling or concurrency issues. My questions are...
1) Does such a backend exist? 2) Is there some logical inconsistency between the behavior of ActiveRecord and the limits of a filesystem? 3) Where should implementation of such a backend begin? should I define an AbstractAdapter? or should I scrap ActiveRecord all together, and try to use another class as the base of my models? In terms of what this would look like, I'm thinking that each record would have a string id, which would serve as the file name, either a single text field aside from the ID and would be equal to the entire file contents, or allow for multiple attributes, and save them into the file in the form of a YAML hash. The use case which got me thinking of this was the desire to have an rails application which users would often run locally on their own machine, but with which they could share (active)records with other users running other copies of the application on their machines. If the records were saved as files, then 1) it would be easy for users to browse/inspect the records outside of the application 2) the sharing and merging of the records across instances could use some existing distributed VC system like GIT the actual application could fairly easily wrap some simplifying UI elements around something like git which could handle the pushing pulling and merging of actual records between instances all the while tracking who made what changes when. Please don't hesitate to tell me if you think there are reasons why this wouldn't/shouldn't work. Thanks -- Eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
