add support for has_many

[active-hash]

add support for has_many

[baldwindavid]

Hello:
I also just added support for "belongs_to" within the ActiveHash class itself.

I know that in a separate message there were concerns about this being dependent on Rails. However, this is not so much Railsy as it is ActiveRecord-ish...which ActiveHash is trying to mimic.

This gist http://gist.github.com/164937 (which includes the belongs_to method) is an example Sinatra app and the associations seem to work just fine. The common Rails methods (constantize, foreign_key, etc.) used within the has_many and belongs_to are available via active_support, which is already a dependency of ActiveHash.

Both ActiveHash/ActiveHash and ActiveHash/ActiveRecord associations should work outside of Rails. Of course, the methods would not work with DataMapper or Sequel, but AR is what is being mimicked here anyway. Does that make sense or are there use cases where this would be problematic?

[zilkey]

Awesome! I've just added it. Sorry for the long delay...

[contentfree]

Looks like this was closed, but it appears that ActiveHash (and ActiveYaml) are still missing support for has_many (at least it seems to be the case between ActiveHash classes)

[zilkey]

Associations are in the Associations module (https://github.com/zilkey/active_hash/blob/master/lib/associations/associations.rb) so you have to include that. If you want them in all ActiveHash objects, you can do something like this in an initializer:

ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, ActiveHash::Associations)

Does that cover it, or are we missing something else?

[contentfree]

Ah... I must've missed that in the docs. Will check it out.

[zilkey]

Come to think of it, I'm not sure if it's in the docs. I'll add that soon.

On Aug 7, 2013, at 11:44 PM, Dave Myron [email protected] wrote:

Ah... I must've missed that in the docs. Will check it out.
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[contentfree]

I think it is. (Unless you just added it tonight!)