http://www.guyvdb.info A Journal of Guy van den Berg Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:45:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I want to take a serious look at serialization and materialization in the coming days. I have some ideas on using contexts for this, similar to what has been done in validations and lazy loading. class Invoice include DataMapper::Resource include DataMapper::Serialization ... http://www.guyvdb.info/ruby/serialization-and-materialization/ Last time I wrote about the internals of a proposed ACL plugin. Today I want to focus on the model. How would you define the ACL on the model? What additional methods will be made available on the model? We should consider the following items: How to set up a default ... http://www.guyvdb.info/ruby/datamapper-ruby/builing-an-acl-plugin-for-datamapper-part-ii/ What about the idea of transparently integrating an access control list into the model via a plugin. Having domain model instance based security is a requirement for some of the projects I work on. The basic idea is to have a GrantedAuthority resource something like: class GrantedAuthority ... http://www.guyvdb.info/ruby/datamapper-ruby/builing-an-access-control-list-plugin-for-datamapper-part-i/ When your web application accesses data in the model, it normally does it in couple of different contexts. You are either listing all available resources in a "summary" context, or you are listing the details of a single resource in a "detailed" context. I'm sure you'll find cases where this ... http://www.guyvdb.info/ruby/lazy-loading-properties-in-datamapper/ Starting a blog is all about having something to say. Something that others may find interesting. Wanting to be successful at blogging, I regularly need something interesting to say. Some homework, come up with 15 10 on-topic ideas that I can write a few paragraphs on. In no particular ... http://www.guyvdb.info/ruby/15-things-to-write-about/ About Me I live in Johannesburg, South Africa. I work in the IT sector. For the last few years, most of my time has been devoted to a project for a physical security equipment manufacture. The project is made up of an embedded micro-processor (ARM7), a home grown embedded ... http://www.guyvdb.info/uncategorized/welcome/