# acts_as_amico ActiveModel injectable relationships (e.g. friendships) backed by Redis using the [Amico](https://github.com/agoragames/amico) gem ## Installation `gem install acts_as_amico` or in your `Gemfile` ```ruby gem 'acts_as_amico' ``` Make sure your redis server is running! Redis configuration is outside the scope of this README, but check out the Redis documentation, http://redis.io/documentation. ### Basic Usage ```ruby require 'acts_as_amico' => true # Configure the Amico sub-framework Amico.configure do |configuration| configuration.redis = Redis.new configuration.namespace = 'amico' configuration.following_key = 'following' configuration.followers_key = 'followers' configuration.blocked_key = 'blocked' configuration.reciprocated_key = 'reciprocated' configuration.pending_key = 'pending' configuration.default_scope_key = 'default' configuration.pending_follow = false configuration.page_size = 25 end class User < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_amico end usera = User.create userb = user.create usera.follow! userb => nil usera.following? userb => true userb.following? usera => false userb.follow! usera => [1, 1] userb.following? usera => true usera.following_count => 1 usera.followers_count => 1 userb.unfollow! usera => [1, 1, 1, 1, 0] userb.following_count => 0 usera.following_count => 1 usera.follower? userb => false puts userb.id => 11 usera.following => ["11"] usera.block! userb => [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1] userb.following? usera => false usera.blocked? userb => true usera.unblock! userb => true usera.blocked? userb => false userb.follow! usera => nil usera.follow! userb => [1, 1] usera.reciprocated? userb => true puts userb.id => 11 usera.reciprocated => ["11"] ``` ### Non-ID Keys You can also use non-id keys ```ruby class Admin < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_amico :amico_key => :name validates_uniqueness_of :name # -> do this or be sorry validates_presence_of :name # -> this too, you've been warned end usera = User.create puts usera.id => 18 admin = Admin.create :name => "frank" usera.follow! admin => nil admin.follow! usera => [1, 1] admin.followers => ["18"] usera.followers => ["frank"] ``` ### ActiveResource Models You can use active resource models as well ```ruby class RestObject < ActiveResource::Base acts_as_amico :amico_key => :title end usera = User.create rest_object = RestObject.find(123) rest_object.title => "Bread and Circus" usera.follow! rest_object usera.following? rest_object => true usera.following => ["Bread and Circus"] ``` One note about ActiveResource: You have to be careful what you use as the :amico_key. For instance, using ```acts_as_amico :amico_key => :name``` is an exceptionally bad idea because this will cause a ```SystemStackError: stack level too deep``` because acts_as_amico uses the Rails::Object#send method to get the key, and for some reason if the send method even *touches* the string/symbol "name" we get cascaded through the object graph. ## Documentation Acts_as_amico is feature complete with the amico gem. [The Amico API usage page](https://github.com/mettadore/amico/blob/master/API.md) shows a more complete suite of methods. The source for the [Amico relationships module](https://github.com/agoragames/amico/blob/master/lib/amico/relationships.rb) is well-documented. There are some simple examples in the method documentation. You can also refer to the [Amico online documentation](http://rubydoc.info/github/agoragames/amico/master/frames). ## Future Plans Clean up the ActiveResource integration and figure out why :name is so dangerous. ## Contributing to acts_as_amico * Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet * Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it * Fork the project * Start a feature/bugfix branch * Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution * Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally. * Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it. ## Copyright Copyright (c) John Metta. See LICENSE.txt for further details.