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= PassiveRecord

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

PassiveRecord was developed by {Art of Mission, Inc.}[http://artofmission.com] for Sharp Sync, a new product by {Ministry Centered Technologies}[http://www.planningcenteronline.com/]

== Installation

Download PassiveRecord from Github: http://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

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

== Due Credit

• {Ministry Centered Technologies}[http://www.planningcenteronline.com/] created the need
• Ryan Heneise of {Art of Mission, Inc.}[http://artofmission.com/] wrote the code

=== Contributors

• felipemesquita (http://github.com/felipemesquita)

Copyright (c) 2008 Ryan Heneise, released under the MIT license