active_model_persistence

A gem to add in-memory persistence to Models built with ActiveModel.

The goals of this gem are:

• Add ActiveRecord-like meta-programming to configure Models used for ETI (Extract, Transform, Load) work where a lot of data is loaded from desparate sources, transformed in memory, and then written to other sources.
• Make creation of these model objects consistent across several different teams,
• Make it so easy to create model objects that teams will use these models instead of using hashs
• Encourage a separation from the models from the business logic of reading, transforming, and writing the data
• Make it easy to use FactoryBot to generate test data instead of having to maintain a bunch of fixture files.

An example model built with this gem might look like this:

require 'active_model_persistence'

class Employee
  include ActiveModelPersistence::Persistence

  # Use ActiveModel attributes and validations to define the model's state

  attribute :id, :string
  attribute :name, :string
  attribute :manager_id, :string

  validates :id, presence: true
  validates :name, presence: true

  # A unique index is automatically created on the primary key attribute (which is :id by default)
  # index :id, unique: true

  # You can set the primary key attribute if you are using a different attribute for
  # the primary key using the statement `self.primary_key = attribute_name`

  # Indexes are non-unique by default and create a `find_by_{index_name}` method on
  # the model class.
  index :manager_id
end

Use the employee model like you would an ActiveRecord model:

e1 = Enmployee.create(id: 'jdoe1', name: 'John Doe', manager_id: 'boss')
e2 = Enmployee.create(id: 'jdoe2', name: 'Bob Doe', manager_id: 'boss')
e3 = Enmployee.create(id: 'boss', name: 'Boss Person')

# The `find` method looks up objects by the primary key and returns a single object or nil
Employee.find('jdoe1') #=> [e1]

# The `find_by_*` methods return a (possibly empty) object array based on the indexes
# declared in the model class.
Employee.find_by_manager_id('boss') #=> [e1, e2]

# etc.

See the full API documentation for more details.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile (or equivalent comamnd in the project's gemspec):

gem 'active_model_persistence'

And then execute:

bundle install

Or install it manually using the gem command:

gem install active_model_persistence

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

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/active_model_persistence.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.