Faking an ActiveRecord Model

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I want to fake an ActiveRecord model like so... instead of having a Plan table in my database, I'd like to just have a variable somewhere (shallow example):

  Plans = [{ :id => 1, :price => 9.99,            { :id => 2, :price => 14.99,            { :id => 3, :price => 19.99 }]

And then I guess I'd still like to be able to associate this with my User model... so User.plan[:price] brings up 9.99 or whatever. User belongs_to :plan, so the User would have a plan_id column?

Any tips? Rails 3.

Thanks!

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I hate to ask the obvious question here... but why not just have a regular model with a table behind it? What problem are you solving here? What problems are you introducing? Just want to make sure you're factoring the tradeoffs here...

Cheers, Robby

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Joao Silva wrote:

I want to fake an ActiveRecord model like so... instead of having a Plan table in my database, I'd like to just have a variable somewhere (shallow example):

  Plans = [{ :id => 1, :price => 9.99,            { :id => 2, :price => 14.99,            { :id => 3, :price => 19.99 }]

And then I guess I'd still like to be able to associate this with my User model... so User.plan[:price] brings up 9.99 or whatever. User belongs_to :plan, so the User would have a plan_id column?

Any tips? Rails 3.

You don't have to "fake it" anymore in Rails 3. Just implement ActiveModel: