inactive_record¶ ↑

github.com/midas/inactive_record/tree/master

InactiveRecord gives you many of the features you know and love from ActiveRecord without the need for a backing database table.

• An initialize method that accepts an attribute hash, including the Rails Date/Time select methods (ie. start_date(1i), etc…)

• A to_xml method that accepts the same options as its respective ActiveRecord method

• All validations work when you call valid?, excluding validates_uniqueness_of

• Supports errors_for method (when validations fail, just render the new or edit form as you mormaly would)

• Works with Rails 2.3

sudo gem install midas-inactive_record

Add gem requirement to your environment.rb file:

config.gem 'midas-inactive_record', :version => '1.0.0', :lib => 'inactive_record', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'

Create a model class:

class Thing < InactiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessor :name, :begin_date, :end_date
  validates_presence_of :name, :begin_date, :end_date
end

In things_controller.rb:

@thing = Thing.new( params[:thing] )

unless @thing.valid?
  render :new
  return
end

Now you can use errors_for, etc in your forms.

• ActiveRecord >= 2.2.0

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