On 8 Oct 2008, at 19:31, Maurício Linhares wrote:
> > If you write something that "looks like" active record, the view/form > methods woudn't change, but the association methods (has_one, has_many > and belongs_to) are something deeply rooted into active record and > SQL, they can't be reused in another context. > > And, unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), ActiveRecord was built with > the expectation that there is a relational database that understands > SQL at the other side, so it isn't really a "possibility" to do what > you're looking for unless you start to build your own relational > database. Also, Merb is just a web framework, it doesn't have anything > like that. > A lot of activerecord generates sql fragments - it would be non trivial to get around that. There are a number of ActiveModel (which would abstract out some of the relevant bits) efforts going on that may be of interest. Fred > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Eric Schulte > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. The problem with using something aside >> from >> ActiveRecord is that you lose all of the view/form helpers, and (i >> think) you also lose the has_many helper methods as well, so you'd >> ultimately lose a large portion of the utility of the Rails >> framework. >> It seems that IMO all of these helpers should be tied to a Module say >> RailsModel or something which ActiveRecord, ActiveResource, etc... >> would >> include. I don't know how if this would introduce too much >> indirection >> into the Rails framework, but it would make it much easier to >> introduce >> alternative storage mechanisms. I don't know much about Merb, but >> maybe >> it already contains something similar? >> >> Thanks -- Eric >> > > -- > Maurício Linhares > http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http:// > blog.codevader.com/ (en) > João Pessoa, PB, +55 83 8867-7208 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
