#94 ActiveResource Basics

Thanks for that episode.
 Just yesterday I was thinking about how to do the communication between two rails applications. So this is a really big help for me :-)

I'm looking forward to the next episode on this topic :-)

I also think that ActiveResource is a great way to access remote data. In fact I am using it to store and access data in Amazon's SimpleDB webservice.

If anybody wants to dig into this, check out my little Tutorial over at the Amazon AWS site:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?categoryID=152&externalID=1242

Does ActiveResource know that its looking for a Product controller because its called Product.rb? what if you already had a product model? how could you tell ActiveResorce to look for a product controller at that site?

This is pretty cool - I hadn't heard of ActiveResource before.

Wow, that was really interesting.

It's good to know it can be so easily implemented.

Thanks once again Ryan.

Rails is so cool!

Ryan, do you want to do a railscast about TimeZones like TzTime or the new edge zone?

Could you please, pretty please use some other program to encode your videos? I don't own a Mac and every player I try to play your screencasts with fails to read its index and so I can't

seek inside the video at all. I tried mplayer/xine/vlc on Linux

@Phil, good question, what if you already have a Product model? Looking at the source it appears it's possible to set the element_name or collection_name like this in the class:

self.element_name = 'product'

That way you can give the class another name such as RemoteProduct.

@oin, I'll look into providing the movies in an alternative (flash?) format. Thanks for the feedback.

@drozzy, I suppose I've been a little stressed lately. But good news is I'm off work this week so I have time to clear off the stuff that's been building up on my plate. Thank for your concern.

@Ryan: I don't think the format is the problem, since I can seek perfectly in other .movs or .m4vs, but not yours

I forgot to say: thanks for the great railscasts!

@oin, that's very strange. I'm using the Animation codec for the .mov files, so that might be a problem. The .m4v is H.264 so I would imagine that would work. I exported them using QuickTime Pro.

Ryan - thanks again!
You have a knack for making episodes about exactly the problem I'm tackling.

Cool!! Thanks a lot.

Ryan, you just saved my day with Railscast #94 and #95! For HOURS I was looking for a short and neat little howto in ActiveResource as the one you made. Muchas gracias! :-)

Where this possible uses?

Is it possible to use activeresource with MacRuby? I'm having troubles.

Great tutorial as always.

Thanx for the tutorial. One thing you should not forget is to create the migration. I only copied the code above. It raised a bunch of errors I couldn't solve until I discovered I've missed the migration.

Just thanks, nice job.

Hey Ryan, thanks for the great screencast. Where can one find the source for #94 and #95.

Thanks a bunch,

-Vance

Just thanks, nice job.

Thanks

ActiveResource Basics is exact what we are looking thanks for the infos

Thanks for infos i hope my Webmaster fix it to my websites

Thank you i going to download it

Now I am planing to leave for sleeping. I hope you will add that. Thanks

Looking at the source it appears it's possible to set the element_name or collection_name like this in the class

A small sample how to access redmine and post a comment on a ticket as well as a small snippet accessing rm via api-key

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_resource'

# Issue model on the client side
class Issue < ActiveResource::Base
  self.site = 'http://xyz.x-itec.net/'
  self.user = 'bk'
  self.password = 'bar'
end

issue = Issue.find(111)
issue.notes="Ruby-Dude"
issue.save

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require 'rubygems'
require 'active_resource'

# Issue model on the client side
class Issue < ActiveResource::Base
headers['X-Redmine-API-Key'] = '8ab9925cc104ec166e432cf938339ca7bc521e88'

  self.site = 'http://xyz.x-itec.net/'
#  self.user = 'bk'
#  self.password = 'bar'
end

issue = Issue.find(111)
issue.notes="Ruby-Dude API-KEY"
issue.save

If you need to upgrade your Rails apps to 4.2.4, you need to know how to use the activeresource gem that is now outside the Rails framework. In https://rubyplus.com/articles/2691 ActiveResource Basics using Rails 4.2.4 article, I cover the basics of getting a simple book application to talk to an inventory application using activeresource gem.

Thanks for this