<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hey everybody, I finished the spike on using ActiveResource as a replacement for RestClient, only for communication with Foreman, and only to orchestrate user creation/deletion in Foreman. See the results at [1]. Some post-spike thoughts/observations: - I monkey-patched ActiveResource to support OAuth, but the same can be achieved by subclassing ActiveResource::Base, which is the way to go. - The amount of custom-code is *very* minimal and it's mostly to support OAuth. - Not a fan of custom to_json, we could either use resource's schema (there are some drawbacks), or try using rabl [2] (like foreman folks do) - Should we decide to adopt this, we can eventually move both candlepin and pulp to use ActiveResource. I think it will be possible to drop our lazy_attributes in the process with some work, if we adopt rails caching. Comments, concerns? -d [1] <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="https://github.com/witlessbird/katello/tree/foreman-ar-spike">https://github.com/witlessbird/katello/tree/foreman-ar-spike</a> [2] <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="https://github.com/nesquena/rabl">https://github.com/nesquena/rabl</a> </body> </html>