Thank you for that, I am still building the client gem itself, but you did prompt me to look around a bit. Took a look at active resource, and the Schema and attributes stuff is going along the path I was looking for. I suspect that I might even be able to make ActiveResource work with the Rakuten RMS API, but at the moment I am content to lift some bits from ActiveResource, which should also give me the info I need to make the errors stuff rails consistent.
I am still not sure how I am going to map from Rails models to my Rakuten client models, but I am getting nearer. Thanks On Monday, 23 March 2015 17:07:24 UTC, dasibre wrote: > > I'm not completely certain, but I think you might find some insight by > looking at ActiveModel > > On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 10:14:27 AM UTC-4, tonypm wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am working on building an api client for the Rakuten MarketPlace. I >> have got some test requests for add delete update etc working and thought I >> should aim to structure it as a Gem and publish it so that others can use >> it/enhance it. >> >> I havn't built a Gem before (worked mostly within the rails environment >> to date). >> >> Have been reading and looking at other api client gems and am making >> progress on building something (still got a way to go to handle errors etc.) >> >> To make the gem general purpose though, I am trying to figure out the >> best way to provide the mapping between models in a rails app and the api >> client objects (such as product, category, order etc). >> >> I am aiming to make each client api object a class be (or should i call >> them models?) >> Then I suspect I will use new to build an api instance from a rails >> instance, and find to return an api instance to a rails instance. >> >> i can build in mapping for my own models to the api objects with no >> problem, but I can't see how I could generalize this so that other apps >> with similar models could use the gem. >> >> I suspect there are approaches for doing this, but so far I haven't >> managed to come up with how to do it. If anyone has any wisdom on the >> matter I would be grateful. >> >> Tony Martin >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/2d67d0c0-a733-439f-9ecc-a4d668bcd049%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
