ActiveResource with Rails 1.2.x ?

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Hi,

Is it possible to use ActiveResource with Rails 1.2.x ?

I've seen that you can download it as a source gem (gem install activeresource-source http://gems.rubyonrails.org)

I'd love to hear from anybody who has tried this, or even better, somebody who has got this working.

Martin

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Probably not, I think there were some changes to ActiveSupport to uh.. support it. Upgrading to edge rails shouldn't be too difficult from Rails 1.2.3 though...

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Just the man...

Thanks for the quick response Rick. When I did the gem install for ARes it updated ASup (have I just made this one up?) to the dependent version. I then had to make ARes active, but hit errors as Rails then wants to find the rest of Rails in vendor/rails.

The reason I say 'Just the man' is because I'm trying to call an instance of your lovely Beast from my existing app, to dynamically create forums, topics and posts.

I guess I'll just have to hand cruft the REST calls to Beast for now then.

Shame.

Thanks,

Martin

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Sorry - should have pointed out that Edge is out of the question, as my app is already in production.

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If Edge is out of the question, then it’s not too difficult of a process. What I did was put activeresource under vendor, then in my environment.rb:

config.load_paths += %w( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/activeresource/lib )

and let Rails do the rest.

Jason

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My apps are on edge too :o It works out if you have good tests and you don't blindly bump the edge version.

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Hi Jason,

I tried what you suggested, but when I try to create one of my ARes objects in the console I get:

f = Forum.new NameError: uninitialized constant ActiveResource   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in `load_missing_constant'   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:452:in `const_missing'   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:464:in `const_missing'   from ./script/../config/../config/../app/models/forum.rb:9   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:203:in `load_without_new_constant_marking'   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:203:in `load_file'   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:202:in `load_file'   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:94:in `require_or_load'   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:248:in `load_missing_constant'   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:452:in `const_missing'   from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/ lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:464:in `const_missing'   from (irb):2

Any idea?

Martin

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You need to require 'active_resource'

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Yeah!

Thanks for your help guys!

Martin Smith