Remote Association

Add has_one_remote, has_many_remote, and belongs_to_remote associations to models inherited from ActiveResource::Base

Say, you have Author and a service with Profiles. You can access profile of author as easy as author.profile.

Also, if you have 10K profiles and you need 3 of them, it won't load all profiles and won't do 3 requests to API. Instead, just use Author.scoped.includes_remote(:profile) and it will do a get request like this one:

GET http://example.com/profiles?author_id[]=1&author_id[]=2&author_id[]=3

Don't want to use default author_id? You can alter class of profile association and author_id key by options. Just like in ActiveRecord.

Notice, that for now, associations work in read-only mode.

Example

  class UserGroup < ActiveResource::Base
    self.site = 'http://example.com'
  end

  class Profile < ActiveResource::Base
    self.site = 'http://example.com'
  end

  class Badge < ActiveResource::Base
    self.site = 'http://example.com'
  end

  class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    include RemoteAssociation::Base

    has_one_remote      :profile
    has_many_remote     :badges
    belongs_to_remote   :group, class_name: 'UserGroup', foreign_key: :group_id, primary_key: 'search[id_in]'
  end

  User.first.profile   # => <Profile>
  User.first.group     # => <Group>
  User.first.badges    # => [<Badge>, <Badge>]

Advanced usage

  # Will load associated objects, when we will need them
  users = Users.scoped.includes_remote(:profile, :badges)

  # just adding SQL condition to out users relation
  users = users.where(active: true)

  # add additional search condition for request to Profiles API
  users = users.where_remote(profile: {search: {kind_in: ['Facebook', 'GitHub']}})

  # time to do ordering and pagination...
  users = users.offset.(100).limit(5).order('name ASC')

  # Fetch 10 users from DB, fetch 10 Profiles and Avatars for those users
  users = users.all

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'remote_association'

Contributing

Fork it
Set up testing database via

rake spec:db:setup
Create your feature branch

git checkout -b my-new-feature
Add tests and run via rspec
Commit your changes

git commit -am 'Added some feature'
Push to the branch

git push origin my-new-feature
Create new Pull Request