You know, that might be exactly it. I knew I'd heard it somewhere before :).
Thanks! Sorry for the interruption. D Duane Morin wrote: > This might be a painfully bad idea, but it's gotten me curious. I have > a generic object Node, which has a name attribute. Say for example that > one of the names is "Widget". > > What I'm wondering is, is there a way to manipulate ActiveRecord to make > a class named Widget, that behaves exactly like a Node with the only > difference being that all operations only work on the condition > (name="Widget") is true? I can do a simple class Widget < Node to > get it started, but I'm looking for what the next line would be, where I > can specify the global condition. In all other cases, > > History : The database itself is generated rather, well, generically by > scanning a file where I don't know the nature of the content beyond > simple node relationships (i.e. I don't know ahead of time all values > for "name"). However, I'm thinking that after the flat data storage > portion is taken care of I could go in and maybe write some sort of > generator for myself that would build up the Ruby classes to deal with > the database, and hide the whole thing. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
