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David Paschich  
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 More options Sep 26 2012, 2:53 am
From: David Paschich <dpass...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:53:15 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Sep 26 2012 2:53 am
Subject: Re: Model using external data source?
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On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:08:46 AM UTC-7, Zhongjie Wu wrote:

> Hi, I am writing a management system and one of the datasource is
> external(read-only) and I need to use REST API to access them. Can I just
> reuse the Model part of MVC but override those database access methods to
> do REST calls instead?

Absolutely. The objects in your model don't have to inherit from
ActiveRecord or any other part of Rails if you don't need them to. Just
write up an object to wrap the API calls.

Rails used to have a module called ActiveResource for this, but it seems
nobody liked it enough to keep it working, so it was dropped. In my current
project, I just have to read from the REST API, and
https://github.com/archiloque/rest-client is working well so far.

-David


 
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