From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2008-08-19T10:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: sharing classes in rails and with other ruby scripts

Shawn Bright wrote:
> Is there a way i can share this class ( model ) with several different
> websites running rails and also use it in my cron jobs, etc..

Well, ActiveRecord is available as it's own gem, and a class which 
inherits from ActiveRecord does not need the full Rails framework to be 
useful (a bit of Googling should give you examples of ActiveRecord used 
outside of Rails...or you could just look at Camping: 
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping). If you wanted, you could keep 
your model collection in one place (say, /usr/lib/mycompanysstuff), and 
then you would just need to modify your environment to require the model 
classes from there...

...however! If you are constantly accessing the models from Rails apps, 
it would probably be worth your while to look into setting up a 
dedicated Rails app to serve up the model data and then access the data 
from your other apps using ActiveResource. That solution has the 
advantage of being scalable as well (...and ActiveResource is just dang 
cool!).
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