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DESCRIPTION:

EmbeddedRecord is designed to do two things:

  • Define records on a Class
  • Embed one or many records (similiar to belongs_to and has_and_belongs_to_many associations)
  • See example Rails app: EmbeddedRecordExample

SYNOPSIS:

Basic embeddable record usage:

class Color
  include EmbeddedRecord::Record
  attribute :name
  attribute :hex

  record :red,   :name => "Red",   :hex => "#FF0000"
  record :green, :name => "Green", :hex => "#00FF00"
  record :blue,  :name => "Blue",  :hex => "#0000FF"
end

p Color.ids # => [:red, :green, :blue]
p Color.all # => [#<Color>, #<Color>, #<Color>]
Color.first
Color.last

blue = Color.find(:blue)
p blue.id    # => :blue

p blue.index # => 2
p blue.name  # => "Blue"
p blue.hex   # => "#0000FF"

p blue.is?(:red) # false

Embedding record:

class Car
  attr_accessor :color_mask # integer id of a record
  include EmbeddedRecord
  embed_record :color
end

car = Car.new
car.color_id = :red
p car.color_mask # => 0
p car.color.name # => "Red"

Embedding records:

class Car
  attr_accessor :colors_mask # integer bitmask of record ids
  include EmbeddedRecord
  embed_records :colors
end

car = Car.new
car.color_ids = [:red, :green]
p car.colors.first.name # => "Red"
p car.color_ids         # => [:red, :green]
p car.colors_mask       # => 3 (2**0 + 2**1)

NullObject support:

class Color
  record nil, :name => "Blank"
end

Color.ids # => [:red, :green, :blue] # still the same

Car.new.color.name # => "Blank" # No whiny nils!

REQUIREMENTS:

Development:

  • rake
  • minitest >= 2.6

INSTALL:

  • gem install embedded_record

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Wojciech Mach

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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