ActiveData

ActiveData is a ActiveModel-based front-end for your data. You might need to use it in the following cases:

• When you need a form objects pattern.

class ProfileForm
  include ActiveData::Model

  attribute 'first_name', String
  attribute 'last_name', String
  attribute 'birth_date', Date

  def full_name
    [first_name, last_name].reject(&:blank).join(' ')
  end

  def full_name= value
    self.first_name, self.last_name = value.split(' ', 2).map(&:strip)
  end
end

class ProfileController < ApplicationController
  def edit
    @form = ProfileForm.new current_user.attributes
  end

  def update
    result = ProfileForm.new(params[:profile_form]).save do |form|
      current_user.update_attributes(form.attributes)
    end

    if result
      redirect_to ...
    else
      render 'edit'
    end
  end
end

• When you need to work with data-storage in ActiveRecord style with

class Flight
  include ActiveData::Model

  attribute :airline, String
  attribute :number, String
  attribute :departure, Time
  attribute :arrival, Time

  validates :airline, :number, presence: true

  def id
    [airline, number].join('-')
  end

  def self.find id
    source = REDIS.get(id)
    instantiate(JSON.parse(source)) if source.present?
  end

  define_save do
    REDIS.set(id, attributes.to_json)
  end

  define_destroy do
    REDIS.del(id)
  end
end

• When you need to implement embedded objects for ActiveRecord models

class Answer
  include ActiveData::Model

  attribute :question_id, Integer
  attribute :content, String

  validates :question_id, :content, presence: true
end

class Quiz < ActiveRecord::Base
  embeds_many :answers

  validates :user_id, presence: true
  validates :answers, associated: true
end

q = Quiz.new
q.answers.build(question_id: 42, content: 'blabla')
q.save

Why?

ActiveData is an ActiveModel-based library that provides the following abilities:

• Standard form objects building toolkit: attributes with typecasting, validations, etc.
• High-level universal ORM/ODM library using any data source (DB, http, redis, text files).
• Embedding objects into your ActiveRecord entities. Quite useful with PG JSON capabilities.

Key features:

• Complete objects lifecycle support: saving, updating, destroying.
• Embedded and referenced associations.
• Backend-agnostic named scopes functionality.
• Callbacks, validations and dirty attributes inside.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'active_data'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install active_data

Usage

ActiveData has modular architecture, so it is required to include modules to obtain additional features. By default ActiveData supports attributes definition and validations.

Attributes

Attribute

Collection

Dictionary

Localized

Represents

Associations

EmbedsOne

EmbedsMany

ReferencesOne

ReferencesMany

Interacting with ActiveRecord

Primary

Persistence

Lifecycle

Callbacks

Dirty

Validations

Scopes

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request