My apologies for not being clearer; I'm still learning all the right names for things. This isn't an ActiveRecord-based class with any representation in the database. In fact, it might not be a "model" as such; just a class with N types of services, defined independently.
One service type is picked based on a given social media account URL to provide code that can answer questions about that account. (What's recorded in the app's Outlet model is the type of service and the account URL, thus the confusion.) I've sketched out some rough example code in case that helps: https://github.com/globalspin/plugin_test The closest analog I've found is Boxer, a gem that allows you to render objects using predefined named views: https://github.com/gowalla/boxer That's what I used as a model for my example implementation, with the find_by_url idea tacked on. Does that makes sense idiomatically? If so, I'll use it and move forward from there. If there's a better way (subclasses? some kind of plugins gem?) then I'd love to hear it. Thanks, ~chris -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
