Yes you would normally update pings as they occur, unless your thinking of submitting a xml and doing a bulk update. So the "pinger" is doing a butch of pings, then sending the results to the backend? Then you just need to convert a local array to a xml file and submit it to your Restful web app.
On Apr 7, 6:45 am, Carl Fyffe <carl.fy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given the following models: > > class Uptime < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :pings > end > > class Ping < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :uptime > end > > I can create an ActiveResource that will get the uptimes and ping models: > > class UptimeResource < ActiveResource::Base > self.site = "http://localhost:3000"; > self.element_name = "uptime" > end > > class PingResource < UptimeResource > self.element_name = "ping" > end > > If the information exists in the database, I can do > UptimeResource.find(1).pings and get a list of pings. But how can I > create pings besides creating an UptimeResource and then creating the > pings separately. I am trying to save the XML into an XML Database and > bypass a relational database (client requirements). I wish I had > something like CouchDB_fu but for XML databases... > > Is this a job for DataMapper? I am open to any strategy. Swift kicks > to the head welcome. > > Carl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
