DataMapper::Aspects

Aspect-Oriented modules to add commonly needed methods and properties to your DataMapper models.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'dm-aspects'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

DataMapper::Aspects::Slug

Adds a :slug property to your model:

property :slug, String, length: 75, unique: true

Adds a find_by_slug class method to your model.

Slug generation is left up to you.

Example:

class MyModel
  include DataMapper::Resource
  include DataMapper::Aspects::Slug

  property :id, Serial
end

MyModel.create(slug: 'my-slug')
MyModel.find_by_slug('')
# => #<Game @id=1 @slug="my-slug">

DataMapper::Aspects::Status

Adds a :status property to your model that validates it was set to one of the followig options: 'draft', 'published', 'archived'. The default value is 'draft'.

You can customize this by overwriting the statuses class method on your Model and have it return an array of strings. Just make sure the default status is first element in the array and that none of your statuses are over 50 characters long.

We use this module to give admin's simple controls over the visibility of content-oriented objects. This module has helped us avoid conflating domain concerns (validation, state management, content lifecycle, etc) by implementing a state machine on models too early in the development of new applications.

Example:

class MyModel
  include DataMapper::Resource
  include DataMapper::Aspects::Status

  property :id, Serial
end

MyModel.all(status: 'published')
# => [#<MyModel @id=1 @status='published'>, #<MyModel @id=2 @status='published'>, ...]

Customized statuses example:

class MyModel
  include DataMapper::Resource
  include DataMapper::Aspects::Status

  property :id, Serial

  def self.statuses
    %w(queued processing processed).freeze
  end
end

DataMapper::Aspects::Utils

A collection of helper methods to make all your models a little more awesome.

Class Methods:

default_sequence_name - Returns a string for the sequence name for your model's Serial property. PostgreSQL only.
next_id - Returns the next unused value in your model's Serial property sequence. Use this when you need to generate an ID for your model before you've saved the object to the database. Pass it the name of your sequence if it differs from the default_sequence_name. PostgreSQL only.
select_options - Returns an array of hashes containing :label and value keys. Useful for building a <select> form input containing a list of all your objedts. Your model must have a property or method called name, which is set as the label. The :value will be set to your model's Serial property (determined automatically) and can be named anything you like.

Instance Methods:

changed? - Pass it the name of one of your model's properties and it will return a Boolean indicating whether or not the field has been changed since you queried it from the database. Use this to avoid performing some expensive operation (like generating a slug, or uploading an image) if the field hasn't changed. Relies on DataMapper's built-in dirty attributes tracking.
attributes_json - Uses the super-fast oj gem to serialize and return a json string of all of your model's attributes.

Example:

class Thing
  include DataMapper::Resource
  include DataMapper::Aspects::Utils

  property :id, Serial
  property :name, String
end


Thing.default_sequence_name
# => "things_id_seq"

Thing.next_id
# => 2

Thing.select_options
# => [{:label => 'Thing 1', :value => 1},{:label => 'Thing 2', :value => 1}]

thing = Thing.first
thing.name = 'Thing-a-ma-jig'
thing.changed?(:name)
# => true
thing.save # once your object is persisted, dirty tracking is reset
thing.changed?(:name)
# => false

Thing.first.attributes_json
# => '{"id":1,"name":"Thing 1"}'

Contributing

Fork it ( http://github.com/styleseek/dm-aspects/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request