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authorAaron Patterson <aaron.patterson@gmail.com>2012-02-09 13:50:08 -0800
committerAaron Patterson <aaron.patterson@gmail.com>2012-02-09 13:50:08 -0800
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* master: (30 commits) Bump tzinfo. 0.3.31 was released on November 6, 2011. Fix GH #4909. Dependency on TZInfo move from AR to AS. moving ordered hash to normal hash because ruby 1.9.3 hash defaultly ordered one Refactored the OrderedHash related stuff Replaced OrderedHash usage with Ruby 1.9 Hash Replaced OrderedHash with Hash for ruby 1.9 series removed unnecessary code replacing the orderhash with hash for ruby-1.9 Clean up some wording. Fix typo. test title changed corresponding to the test replaced active support ordered hash to ruby hash on active resource PostgreSQL does not work in the same way of the other adapters AR::Relation#pluck: improve to work with joins Fix match docs Fix attribute_before_type_cast for serialized attributes. Fixes #4837. Fix failing request test Fixes in AMo README Update README to mention lint. Trim down Active Model API by removing valid? and errors.full_messages ...
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diff --git a/activemodel/README.rdoc b/activemodel/README.rdoc
index 9208145507..a7ba27ba73 100644
--- a/activemodel/README.rdoc
+++ b/activemodel/README.rdoc
@@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ Prior to Rails 3.0, if a plugin or gem developer wanted to have an object
interact with Action Pack helpers, it was required to either copy chunks of
code from Rails, or monkey patch entire helpers to make them handle objects
that did not exactly conform to the Active Record interface. This would result
-in code duplication and fragile applications that broke on upgrades.
+in code duplication and fragile applications that broke on upgrades. Active
+Model solves this by defining an explicit API. You can read more about the
+API in ActiveModel::Lint::Tests.
-Active Model solves this. You can include functionality from the following
-modules:
+Active Model also provides the following functionality to have ORM-like
+behavior out of the box:
* Add attribute magic to objects
@@ -87,10 +89,9 @@ modules:
errors.add(:name, "can not be nil") if name.nil?
end
- def ErrorsPerson.human_attribute_name(attr, options = {})
+ def self.human_attribute_name(attr, options = {})
"Name"
end
-
end
person.errors.full_messages
@@ -163,7 +164,7 @@ modules:
* Custom validators
- class Person
+ class ValidatorPerson
include ActiveModel::Validations
validates_with HasNameValidator
attr_accessor :name
@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ modules:
class HasNameValidator < ActiveModel::Validator
def validate(record)
- record.errors[:name] = "must exist" if record.name.blank?
+ record.errors[:name] = "must exist" if record.name.blank?
end
end
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ modules:
p.valid? # => true
{Learn more}[link:classes/ActiveModel/Validator.html]
-
+
== Download and installation