PassiveRecord¶ ↑

PassiveRecord provides ActiveRecord-like behavior for static, non-database models.

PassiveRecord was developed by Art of Mission, Inc. for Sharp Sync, a new product by Ministry Centered Technologies

Installation¶ ↑

Download PassiveRecord from Github: github.com/artofmission/passive_record

Install using Git Submodules: ¶ ↑

git submodule add http://github.com/artofmission/passive_record vendor/plugins/passive_record
git submodule init
git submodule update

Install with Rails’ plugin installer¶ ↑

./script/plugin install git://github.com/artofmission/passive_record.git

Example¶ ↑

class Name < PassiveRecord::Base
  define_fields :first_name, :middle_name, :last_name
end

…will create a new Name model with id, address, and location attributes.

class Person < PassiveRecord::Base
  has_many :names
end

@person = Person.new(:names => [Name.new(:first_name => "Dima", :last_name => "Dozen")])

This would a Person object that has many names. You can now access the names hash just like you would an ActiveRecord object.

@person.names #=> [#<Name:0x2031824 @last_name="Dozen", @first_name="Dima">]

You can serialize a PassiveRecord object into another database object for storage:

class Address < PassiveRecord::Base
  define_fields :street, :city, :state, :postal_code, :country
end

class Company < ActiveRecord
  serialize :address
end

@company.address = Address.new(:street1 => "123 4th St", :city => "Wellington", :country => "NZ")

Resources for Non-ActiveRecord models ¶ ↑

• railscasts.com/episodes/121-non-active-record-model

Due Credit¶ ↑

• Ministry Centered Technologies created the need

• Ryan Heneise of Art of Mission, Inc. wrote the code

Contributors¶ ↑

• felipemesquita (github.com/felipemesquita)

Copyright © 2008 Ryan Heneise, released under the MIT license