I've had that book ever since it came out, and have tried to work on this problem using the book as well.
What I seem to recall is that belongs_to, has_many, or anything similar is not that easy to figure out how to get it to work, at least I have not had good luck with it. I find it easier that when the rails server calls a drb process and on some other machine on the network and that process needs to use active resource, I just pass an array of record id's through drb and then drb can do rec.find(id) which works fine. Then if I have a relationship, I just handle it manually by setting say rec.parent_id. Other types of find() may cause the server to send over all the records for it to search through which can be a problem if there are too many records. This seems kludgy, but that's what I have been doing ever since I gave up on trying to figure this out as it seemed there where not enough good examples or those that I found I had problems getting to work. On Jun 21, 5:25 pm, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > Right. You might want to look at Chap 15 in "The Rails Way", Obie > Fernandez et.al., 2008. It covers XML and ActiveResource - only 27 > pages but the best I've been able to find to date. I'm assuming that > what you mean by "complex relationships" is the A...Resource parallel > to associations in A...Record. If not, clue me in with more details. > > On Jun 19, 2:47 pm, Jedrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What I mean is active resource over a web service so that you run a > > ruby script outside of rails remotely and access the active record > > objects in the rails service over http as active resource provides and > > still have the complex relationships, that second part I have found > > tricky > > > On Jun 19, 1:40 pm,Rick<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You might take a look at:http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ > > > > Once you get there follow the links to the different Model topics, in > > > particular check out:http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html > > > > On Jun 19, 11:52 am, Jedrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I tried to work out an active resource example with complex > > > > relationships between records and had not much luck so I gave up and > > > > manipulate *_id fields myself to get around this in a somewhat cludgy > > > > way at times. I am wondering if there are any good books with examples > > > > on this ? I have the agile web book 2, does book 3 go into this in > > > > greater depth ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
