Hi all
A while ago I had a walk among some of the plugins/gem available to add reflection on validations and/or force constraints on the database to be forced on Active Record models.
Since that moment I started thinking about a more declarative manner to manage and standardize the validations and to have the "validation rules" available in the views. I ended up writing something more generic than my initial idea, because I noticed soon I didn't need just the validation information about my model but even some other extra which were related to the class.
Today, I'm releasing Simple Descriptor v 0.1.0 (yes, it's a early release). It's a small piece of code that lets you add some chunk of informations to your class/models. The library doesn't depend from rails gems, so maybe it can be interesting even outside of the rails world.
The docs of the project can be found here
http://simpledesc.rubyforge.org/docs/
They're not complete, I may try to add some more in the future. I think what is provided now doesn't give enough ideas about how you can use the library. For the moment you may want to take a look at the tests to see some more sample of usage.
The rubyforge page of the project is
http://rubyforge.org/projects/simpledesc/
The library is distributed as a gem.
Any comment/contribution is very welcome.
Thanks
Paolo
