acts_as_constant 1.0.0 → 1.0.1

data/README

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+This dynamic method will create a set of constants for the class/model from the table it’s associated with. The model class must have a table with two columns ( name = “constant name”, id = “constant id”).
+
+
+These constants can be accessed by class methods. Ex: Role.editor() will get the instance created from the row with name of “editor” 
+
+
+Usage in Model class: 
+
+ acts_as_constant # default constant name will be in the table's column  'name'
+ acts_as_constant :fooby # constant name will be in the table's column  'fooby'
+
+
+Usage by client:
+
+ Role.get(2) - Get the Role instance created from row 2 in the roles table.
+
+ Role.contributer - Get the Role instance created from the row with a name of "contributer".
+
+Implementation
+
+Create an array class attribute named _CONSTANTS. ex: ROLE_CONSTANTS
+Create 2 public class methods. ex:
+Role.get(id) – get the Role instance in ROLE_CONSTANTS[id]
+Role.CONSTANTS – get the entire ROLE_CONSTANTS array
+Create an instance of the class for each row in the class’s table.
+Role instance 1 = {“name” => “contributer”, “id” => “1” }
+Role instance 2 = {“name” => “editor”, “id” => “2” }
+Add each of these Role instances to the ROLE_CONSTANT array. The instance will be indexed in the array by the row’s id value.
+ROLE_CONSTANT1 = {“name” => “contributer”, “index” => “1” }
+ROLE_CONSTANT2 = {“name” => “editor”, “index” => “2” }
+Freeze each Role instance.
+Add 2 more public class methods.
+Role.contributer – returns the Role instance in ROLE_CONSTANTS1
+Role.CONTRIBUTER – returns the Role instance in ROLE_CONSTANTS1
+Freeze the array class attribute. ROLE_CONSTANTS

data/lib/acts_as_constant.rb

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
             
             # let's set up a variable to represent the name of the klass
             const = self.to_s
+            #puts "const = #{const}"
             
             # create a constant array to hold the values
             # create a nice get method to pull from the constant array
@@ -32,7 +33,9 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
             }                     
             
             # let's build methods for everything in the database.
-            Module.const_get(const).find(:all).each do |rec|
+            rows = eval "#{const}.find(:all)"
+            
+            rows.each do |rec|
               #puts rec.inspect
               name = rec.send(col)
               

metadata

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ rubygems_version: 0.9.2
 specification_version: 1
 name: acts_as_constant
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  version: 1.0.0
-date: 2007-02-26 00:00:00 -05:00
+  version: 1.0.1
+date: 2007-02-27 00:00:00 -05:00
 summary: Acts as Constant
 require_paths: 
 - lib