Awesome

PseudoModel

ActiveRecord Validations without ActiveRecord? No problem.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pseudo_model'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pseudo_model

Usage

If you want to build form with validations, but you don't need store data to database, this is for you.

For instance, you want calculation request form.

Create app/model/calculation_request.rb and define class from PseudoModel::Base

CalculationRequest < PseudoModel::Base
  attr_acessor :name, :message
  validates :message, :presence => true
end

Now you can use valid? method:

calc_request = CalculationRequest.new
calc_request.valid? #=> false
calc_request.message = "Hello, I want to know how much..."
calc_request.valid? #=> true

In controller you can simply do:

def new
  @calculation_request = CalculcationRequest.new
end

def create
  @calculation_request = CalculcationRequest.new(params[:calculation_request])
  if @calculation_request.valid?
    # send email or something
  else
    render :new
  end
end

Building a form is simple as that:

<%= form_for @calculation_request do |f| %>
  ...
<% end %>

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request