ActsAsHoldable
ActsAsHoldable allows resources to be held by users. It:
- Is a solution based on Rails engines
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'acts_as_holdable'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install acts_as_holdable
Migrations
bundle exec rake acts_as_holdable_engine:install:migrations
Holdables, Holders and Holdings
To set-up a Holdable model, use acts_as_holdable. A Holdable model is enabled to be held.
class Ticket < ApplicationRecord
acts_as_holdable
end
To set-up a Holder model, use acts_as_holder. Only Holders can create holdings.
class User < ApplicationRecord
acts_as_holder
end
From this time on, a User can hold a Ticket with
@user.hold! @ticket
A User can unhold a Ticket with
@holding = @user.hold! @ticket
@user.unhold! @holding
You can access holdings both from the Holdable and the Holder
@ticket.holdings # return all holdings created on this ticket
@user.holdings # return all holdings made by this user
Configuring Options
There are a number available options to make your models behave differently. They are all configurable in the Holdable model, passing a hash to acts_as_holdable
Available options (with values) are:
:on_hand_type
: Specifies how theamount
of a holding (e.g. number of tickets from an event) affects the future availability of the holdable. Allowed values are::none
:open
No constraints
The model accepts holdings without any constraint. This means every holder can create an infinite number of holdings on it and no capacity or time checks are performed.
Creating a holding on this model means holding it forever and without care for other existing holdings. In other words, the number of holdings do not affect the availability of this holdable. (e.g. pre-ordering a product that will be released soon)
Capacity constraints
The option on_hand_type
may be used to set a constraint over the amount
attribute of the holding
No capacity constraints - on_hand_type: :none
The model is holdable without capacity constraints.
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
# As `on_hand_type: :none` is a default and can be ommited
acts_as_holdable on_hand_type: :none
end
Open capacity - on_hand_type: :open
WARNING - migration needed! - with this option the model must have an attribute
on_hand: :integer
The model is holdable until its capacity
is reached. (e.g. an event't tickets)
Configuration
class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_holdable on_hand_type: :open
end
Creating a new holdable
Each instance of the model must define its capacity.
@ticket = Ticket.new(...)
@ticket.on_hand = 30 # This event allows 30 tickets
@ticket.save!
Holding
# Holding a model with `on_hand_type: :open` requires `:amount`
@user1.hold! @ticket, amount: 5 # holding tickets for 5 people, OK
@user2.hold! @ticket, amount: 20 # holding tickets for other 20 people, OK
@user3.hold! @ticket, amount: 10 # overholding! raise ActsAsHoldable::AvailabilityError
Holdings Track - on_hold_track: :true
Useful if you want an easier way to keep track of how many holdings you currently have. Every time a holding is created or deleted the on_hold
counter gets uptaded on your model
WARNING - migration needed! - with this option the model must have an attribute
on_hold: :integer
Holding resources on a span of time
Holdings can be created to be 'living' within a span of time, if the holding doesn't gets confirmed within the time span, it will be destroyed.
@holding = @user.hold_for(@ticket, duration: 10.minutes, amount: 1)
A User can confirm a holding with
@user.confirm_holding!(@holding)
Contributing
Contribution directions go here.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
Acknowledgements
To speed-up the initialization process of this project, the structure of this repository was strongly influenced by ActsAsBookable by Tandù srl.