https://github.com/thbar/activerecord-hooks

A place to discuss ActiveRecord extensibility
https://github.com/thbar/activerecord-hooks

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A place to discuss ActiveRecord extensibility

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/thbar/activerecord-hooks
• Owner: thbar
• Created: 2012-03-03T17:47:43.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-03-05T14:27:40.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-14T02:50:22.497Z (2 months ago)
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• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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This repository is a place to discuss the current needs to extend ActiveRecord and see if we can provide a clean, shared way to achieve this.

### Some background

[adapter_extensions](https://github.com/activewarehouse/adapter_extensions) is a gem that add features to ActiveRecord adapters. It started in 2006 and is currently maintained by Thibaut Barrère.

Upgrading adapter_extensions to Rails 3 wasn't trivial, so the maintainer looked for a solution and discovered [activerecord-import](https://github.com/zdennis/activerecord-import) by Zach Dennis, which implemented a trick to extend ActiveRecord adapters.

After chatting a bit, we came to the conclusion that it would be useful to create a common solution to extend ActiveRecord.

### TODO

* write down the current use-cases

* define ActiveRecord hooks or other tricks which would let us extend as needed

* create a gem that will solve that

* eventually, merge the gem into Rails itself