On Jan 21, 2:19 pm, David Sainte-claire <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > To start off, I don't know if this is unorthodox, or if someone has had > to implement something similar. I've searched all over Google and don't > really a see a good solution for what I'm trying to do. > > Basically I created my own plugin that subclasses ActiveResource so that > I can consume non-REST URIs and get back XML. That's easy, there are > lots of exmaples online of how to do that. Basically, I then use a gem > called happymapper to bind the XML to Ruby objects. Again, this works > very easily as well. Now here's where I'm stuck. I want to persist the > Ruby object to a local database so that I don't have to go out and get > it again. I had a thought of using the save method from ActiveRecord > since all the DB plumbing is built in, but I'm a little bit at a loss as > to how I can call ActiveRecords's save method from a subclass of > ActiveResource as Ruby doesn't allow multiple inheritance. > > Has anyone else needed to use ActiveResource to extract data, and then > come up with a method to persist that data to a local DB? Using the > ActiveResource save method will attempt to POST it back to the place > where I got it, and it's a read-only resource. >
Depending on the object, serializing (either to YAML or Marshal format) might work. Then you'd just store the whole serialized object (now basically a BLOB) to the DB. Not sure how well ActiveResource plays with serialization, but it's worth a try. --Matt Jones -- 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-t...@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.
