The project is in a healthy, maintained state
ActiveResource, but with a caching layer.
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ActiveCachedResource

ActiveResource but with a caching layer.

Installation

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

$ bundle add active_cached_resource

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

$ gem install active_cached_resource

Usage

Check out the Wiki! https://github.com/jlurena/active_cached_resource/wiki

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Run rake to run the linter and tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Additionally, there is an example Rails Application you can play with. In there you'll find two small rails app:

  • Provider
    • This application contains the remote data.
  • Consumer
    • This application consumes a remote resource from Provider.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jlurena/active_cached_resource.

Inspirations & Credits

Major differences between this gem and CachedResource are:

  • This uses a custom, vendored version of the gem ActiveResource that adds the following features
    • Lazy where chaining
  • Flexibility to add your own caching strategies, this gem comes built in with two of them:
    • Caching using ActiveSupport
    • Caching using SQL