meek

SilverSpoon

In this world there are the has, and the has nots. ActiveRecord can has_many other ActiveRecords, but what about the rest of us? SilverSpoon lets ActiveRecord objects has_many Non-ActiveRecord objects, or for Non-ActiveRecord objects to has_many other Non-ActiveRecord objects.

For the people!

Suppose you have a plain old ActiveModel

class BankAccount
  class << self
    def find(args)
      HTTP Request...
      an arbitrary service...
      or some awful local Modeling logic...
      ...
    end
  end
end

And another Object that bares an association to it

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend SilverSpoon::ActiveConcern

  has_many :bank_accounts
end

Now make calls a la ActiveRecord Association

user = User.new

user.bank_accounts

The referencing class does not have to be an ActiveRecord object. It simply needs to respond to a find method as you would expect. Having an @id or to_params would be useful as well in most cases. It would also be nice if there was a save method, if you're going to be doing something like that.

The find method may receive the id from the referring object to associate the two.