Module: Camping::Models

Included in:

Helpers

Defined in:

lib/camping-unabridged.rb,
lib/camping.rb,
lib/camping/ar.rb,
lib/camping/sequel.rb

Overview

Models is an empty Ruby module for housing model classes derived from ActiveRecord::Base. As a shortcut, you may derive from Base which is an alias for ActiveRecord::Base.

module Camping::Models
  class Post < Base; belongs_to :user end
  class User < Base; has_many :posts end
end

Where Models are Used

Models are used in your controller classes. However, if your model class name conflicts with a controller class name, you will need to refer to it using the Models module.

module Camping::Controllers
  class Post < R '/post/(\d+)'
    def get(post_id)
      @post = Models::Post.find post_id
      render :index
    end
  end
end

Models cannot be referred from Views at this time.

Constant Summary

A =

ActiveRecord

Base =

Base is an alias for ActiveRecord::Base. The big warning I’m going to give you about this: *Base overloads table_name_prefix.* This means that if you have a model class Blog::Models::Post, it’s table name will be blog_posts.

ActiveRecord is not loaded if you never reference this class. The minute you use the ActiveRecord or Camping::Models::Base class, then the ActiveRecord library is loaded.

A::Base