From: shawn bright <nephish@...>
Date: 2008-08-19T12:50:02+09:00
Subject: Re: sharing classes in rails and with other ruby scripts

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Thanks for this, I am using these models in apps that are not rails apps
andy yes, It is pretty easy to do. I had some advice in the rails irc where
someone recommended the ActiveResource way to go. However, after having read
some on it, i don't think i can employ it here because it is pretty new and
my rails version is 1.2.4  If i upgrade to rails 2, i run the risk of
breaking my site (which is pretty large now) .

Thanks for your attention on this Joshua, and if you know of a good trick
that might work for me I would welcome any suggestions.  Actually, it is
only about 4 of the models that i want to share, but if i do 4, i may as
well do them all.

thanks again
sk

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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