Non-db backed Model for INat::Obs

[JoeCohen]

Refactor Inat::Obs to use a non-db backed model with attribute accessors instead of a Hash lookup.

andrew nimmo Sep 28, 2024, 1:58 PM (14 hours ago) Joe - I believe there is a better, more standard Railsy way to do all this, and there's an example on my PR: Define your inat_obs as an activemodel object. This gives you the accessor methods without repetitive declarations, and other goodies besides. You won't have to access by hash key. It's a "model not backed by a db table" and it's a very convenient thing.

Example PR #2337

[nimmolo]

One thing to be aware of: when defining your models, you will need a line defining the attributes, because they can't be inferred from db columns.

attributes: :this, :that, :the_other

On my model, i'm doing this by iterating through some params defined elsewhere, but you'll probably want to write the list explicitly.

From there, you can just write instance methods and class methods the usual way. There seem to be so few gotchas, it's relaxing!

[JoeCohen]

thanks again. i’ll give it a try on tues

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El El dom, sept 29, 2024 a la(s) 04:54, andrew nimmo < @.***> escribió:

One thing to be aware of: when defining your models, you will need a line defining the attributes, because they can't be inferred from db columns.

attributes: :this, :that, :the_other

On my model, i'm doing this by iterating through some params defined elsewhere, but you'll probably want to write the list explicitly.

From there, you can just write instance methods and class methods the usual way. There seem to be so few gotchas, it's relaxing!

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