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+ rvm --create use 1.9.2@acts_as_eav_model
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+ * First version with base functionality to handle Entity-attribute-value model (EAV) pattern.
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+ * CHANGELOG started [Marcus Wyatt]
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+ source "http://rubygems.org"
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+ gem "rails", "3.0.1"
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+ gem "sqlite3-ruby", :require => "sqlite3"
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+ gem "jeweler"
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+ if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'
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+ gem "ruby-debug", ">= 0.10.3"
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+ end
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+ group :test do
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+ gem "rspec-rails", "~> 2.0"
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+ end
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+ GEM
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+ remote: http://rubygems.org/
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+ specs:
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+ actionpack (= 3.0.1)
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+ rake (>= 0.8.4)
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+ treetop (1.4.8)
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+ polyglot (>= 0.3.1)
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+
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+ PLATFORMS
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+ ruby
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+
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+ DEPENDENCIES
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+ jeweler
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+ rails (= 3.0.1)
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+ rspec-rails (~> 2.0)
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+ sqlite3-ruby
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+ Copyright (c) 2008 Marcus Wyatt
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+
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+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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+ a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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+ "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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+ without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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+ distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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+ permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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+ the following conditions:
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+
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+ The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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+ included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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+ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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+ EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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+ MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
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+ NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
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+ LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
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+ OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
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+ WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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+ ActsAsEavModel
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+ ==============
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+
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+ ActsAsEavModel allow for the Entity-attribute-value model (EAV), also
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+ known as object-attribute-value model and open schema on any of your ActiveRecord
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+ models.
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+
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+ = What is Entity-attribute-value model?
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+ Entity-attribute-value model (EAV) is a data model that is used in circumstances
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+ where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that can be used to describe
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+ a thing (an "entity" or "object") is potentially very vast, but the number that will
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+ actually apply to a given entity is relatively modest.
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+
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+ = Typical Problem
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+ A good example of this is where you need to store
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+ lots (possible hundreds) of optional attributes on an object. My typical
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+ reference example is when you have a User object. You want to store the
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+ user's preferences between sessions. Every search, sort, etc in your
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+ application you want to keep track of so when the user visits that section
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+ of the application again you can simply restore the display to how it was.
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+
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+ So your controller might have:
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+ Project.find :all, :conditions => current_user.project_search,
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+ :order => current_user.project_order
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+
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+ But there could be hundreds of these little attributes that you really don't
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+ want to store directly on the user object. It would make your table have too
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+ many columns so it would be too much of a pain to deal with. Also there might
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+ be performance problems. So instead you might do something like
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+ this:
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+ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
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+ has_many :preferences
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+ end
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+ class Preferences < ActiveRecord::Base
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+ belongs_to :user
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+ end
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+ Now simply give the Preference model a "name" and "value" column and you are
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+ set..... except this is now too complicated. To retrieve a attribute you will
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+ need to do something like:
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+ Project.find :all,
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+ :conditions => current_user.preferences.find_by_name('project_search').value,
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+ :order => current_user.preferences.find_by_name('project_order').value
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+ Sure you could fix this through a few methods on your model. But what about
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+ saving?
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+ current_user.preferences.create :name => 'project_search',
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+ :value => "lastname LIKE 'jones%'"
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+ current_user.preferences.create :name => 'project_order',
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+ Again this seems to much. Again we could add some methods to our model to
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+ make this simpler but do we want to do this on every model. NO! So instead
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+ we use this plugin which does everything for us.
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+ = Capabilities
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+ The ActsAsEavModel plugin is capable of modeling this problem in a intuitive
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+ way. Instead of having to deal with a related model you treat all attributes
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+ (both on the model and related) as if they are all on the model. The plugin
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+ will try to save all attributes to the model (normal ActiveRecord behavior)
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+ but if there is no column for an attribute it will try to save it to a
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+ related model whose purpose is to store these many sparsely populated
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+ The main design goals are:
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+ * Have the eav attributes feel like normal attributes. Simple gets and sets
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+ will add and remove records from the related model.
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+ * Allow for more than one related model. So for example on my User model I might
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+ have some eav behavior going into a contact_info table while others are
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+ going in a user_preferences table.
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+ * Allow a model to determine what a valid eav attribute is for a given
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+ related model so our model still can generate a NoMethodError.
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+ Example
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+ =======
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+ Will make the current class have eav behaviour.
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+ class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
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+ has_eav_behavior
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+ end
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+ post = Post.find_by_title 'hello world'
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+ puts "My post intro is: #{post.intro}"
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+ post.teaser = 'An awesome introduction to the blog'
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+ post.save
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+ The above example should work even though "intro" and "teaser" are not
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+ attributes on the Post model.
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+ = Installation
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+ ./script/plugin install acts_as_eav_model
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+ = RUNNING UNIT TESTS
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+ == Creating the test database
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+ The test databases will be created from the info specified in test/database.yml.
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+ Either change that file to match your database or change your database to
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+ match that file.
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+ == Running with Rake
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+ The easiest way to run the unit tests is through Rake. By default sqlite3
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+ will be the database run. Just change your env variable DB to be the database
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+ adaptor (specified in database.yml) that you want to use. The database and
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+ permissions must already be setup but the tables will be created for you
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+ from schema.rb.
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+ Copyright (c) 2008 Marcus Wyatt, released under the MIT license
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+ # encoding: UTF-8
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+ require 'rubygems'
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+ begin
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+ require 'bundler/setup'
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+ rescue LoadError
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+ puts 'You must `gem install bundler` and `bundle install` to run rake tasks'
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+ end
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+
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+ require 'rake'
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+ require 'rake/rdoctask'
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+
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+ require 'rspec/core'
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+ require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
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+ RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec)
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+ Rake::RDocTask.new(:rdoc) do |rdoc|
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+ rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'rdoc'
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+ rdoc.title = 'Acts As EAV Model'
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+ rdoc.options << '--line-numbers' << '--inline-source'
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+ rdoc.rdoc_files.include('README.rdoc')
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+ rdoc.rdoc_files.include('lib/**/*.rb')
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+ end
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+
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+ begin
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+ require 'jeweler'
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+ Jeweler::Tasks.new do |gem|
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+ gem.name = "acts_as_eav_model"
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+ gem.summary = %Q{Entity Attribute Value Implementation for inclusion in ActiveRecord models.}
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+ gem.description = %Q{Entity-attribute-value model (EAV) is a data model that is used in circumstances
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+ where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that can be used to describe
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+ a thing (an "entity" or "object") is potentially very vast, but the number that will
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+ actually apply to a given entity is relatively modest.}
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+ gem.email = ""
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+ gem.homepage = "http://github.com/g5search/acts_as_eav_model"
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+ gem.has_rdoc=true
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+ gem.authors = ["Marcus Wyatt"]
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+ # gem is a Gem::Specification... see http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20 for additional settings
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+ end
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+ Jeweler::GemcutterTasks.new
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+ rescue LoadError
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+ puts "Jeweler (or a dependency) not available. Install it with: gem install jeweler"
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+ end
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+ ActiveRecord Model annotated with 'has_eav_behavior' with no options in declaration
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+ - should have many attributes
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+ - should create new attribute on save
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+ - should delete attribute
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+ - should write eav attributes to attributes table
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+ - should return nil when attribute does not exist
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+ - should use method missing to make attribute seem as native property
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+ - should read attributes using subscript notation
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+ - should read the attribute when invoking 'read_attribute'
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+ ActiveRecord Model annotated with 'has_eav_behavior' with options in declaration
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+ - should be 'has_many' association on both sides
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+ - should only allow restricted fields when specified (:fields => %w(phone aim icq))
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+ - should raise 'NoMethodError' when attribute not in 'eav_attributes' method array
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+ - should raise 'NoMethodError' when attribute does not satisfy 'is_eav_attribute?' method
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+ Validations on ActiveRecord Model annotated with 'has_eav_behavior'
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+ - should execute as normal (validates_presence_of)
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+ Finished in 0.239663 seconds
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+ <td class="class-name-in-header">ActiveRecord::Acts::EavModel</td>
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+ lib/acts_as_eav_model.rb
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+ <div id="description">
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+ <p>
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+ ActsAsEavModel allow for the Entity-attribute-value model (EAV), also known
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+ as object-attribute-value model and open schema on any of your ActiveRecord
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+ models.
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+ </p>
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+ <h1>What is Entity-attribute-value model?</h1>
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+ <p>
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+ Entity-attribute-value model (EAV) is a data model that is used in
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+ circumstances where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that
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+ can be used to describe a thing (an &quot;entity&quot; or
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+ &quot;object&quot;) is potentially very vast, but the number that will
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+ actually apply to a given entity is relatively modest.
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+ </p>
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+ <h1>Typical Problem</h1>
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+ <p>
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+ A good example of this is where you need to store lots (possible hundreds)
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+ of optional attributes on an object. My typical reference example is when
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+ you have a User object. You want to store the user&#8216;s preferences
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+ between sessions. Every search, sort, etc in your application you want to
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+ keep track of so when the user visits that section of the application again
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+ you can simply restore the display to how it was.
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+ </p>
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+ <p>
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+ So your controller might have:
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+ </p>
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+ <pre>
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+ Project.find :all, :conditions =&gt; current_user.project_search,
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+ :order =&gt; current_user.project_order
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+ </pre>
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+ <p>
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+ But there could be hundreds of these little attributes that you really
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+ don&#8216;t want to store directly on the user object. It would make your
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+ table have too many columns so it would be too much of a pain to deal with.
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+ Also there might be performance problems. So instead you might do something
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+ like this:
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+ </p>
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+ <pre>
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+ class User &lt; ActiveRecord::Base
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+ Now simply give the Preference model a &quot;name&quot; and
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+ &quot;value&quot; column and you are set.&#8230;. except this is now too
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+ Sure you could fix this through a few methods on your model. But what about
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+ Again this seems to much. Again we could add some methods to our model to
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+ make this simpler but do we want to do this on every model. NO! So instead
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+ we use this plugin which does everything for us.
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+ <h1>Capabilities</h1>
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+ The ActsAsEavModel plugin is capable of modeling this problem in a
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+ The plugin will try to save all attributes to the model (normal
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+ ActiveRecord behaviour) but if there is no column for an attribute it will
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+ try to save it to a related model whose purpose is to store these many
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+ <li>Allow for more than one related model. So for example on my User model I
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