# 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
  self.site = 'http://mettadore.com/junk'
  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.
 * Better document the code
 
## 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.