BasicModel
BasicModel is intended to be used in a tableless model in Rails >= 3.0. It complies with the ActiveModel API and includes validations, so it can be used in form helpers without a problem.
Installation
$ gem install basic_modelUsage
require 'basic_model'
class Message
include BasicModel
attr_accessor :name, :email, :content
# can even include validations
validates_presence_of :name
end
message = Message.new(:email => 'bob@example.com', :content => 'Hey man!')
message.valid?
message.errors[:name] # => ["can't be blank"]Using ActiveModel::MassAssignmentSecurity:
require 'active_model'
require 'basic_model'
class Comment
include BasicModel
include ActiveModel::MassAssignmentSecurity
attr_accessor :name, :comment, :spam
attr_accessible :name, :comment
end
comment = Comment.new(:name => 'Bob', :comment => 'Great Post!', :spam => false)
comment.spam # => nilCopyright
Copyright (c) 2011 Peter Browne. See LICENSE for details.