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thechangelog:

Newcomers to Rails often discover too late that not all application models have to be ORM-backed. There are a number of reasons why you might not need or want to persist your models in a data store. Perhaps you want to roll your own persistence layer. In those scenarios, you might miss some conveniences of ActiveRecord-based models. While ActiveModel has made models more consistent between ActiveRecord, Mongoid, and other ORMs, it doesn’t cover every ActiveRecord feature. Bridging this gap is the inspiration behind ActiveAttr, a project from Chris Griego.

ActiveAttr lets you define attributes:

class Person
  include ActiveAttr::Attributes

  attribute :first_name
  attribute :last_name
end

person = Person.new
person.first_name = "Chris"
person.last_name = "Griego"
person.attributes #=> {"first_name"=>"Chris", "last_name"=>"Griego"}

… with defaults

class Person
  include ActiveAttr::Attributes

  attribute :first_name, :default => "John"
  attribute :last_name, :default => "Doe"
end

person = Person.new
person.first_name #=> "John"
person.last_name #=> "Doe"

… even specify assignment security:

class Person
  include ActiveAttr::MassAssignmentSecurity
  attr_accessor :first_name, :last_name
  attr_protected :last_name
end

person = Person.new(:first_name => "Chris", :last_name => "Griego")
person.first_name #=> "Chris"
person.last_name #=> nil

ActiveAttr also supports logging, typecasting, and more. Check out the source on GitHub for more info or to contribute.

thechangelog:

TJ is at it again. The creator of Express, Stylus, and other projects you probably use has released UIKit, a lightweight web UI component library. Let’s be honest, most JavaScript UI component libraries are bloated, tangled messes. UIKit aims to be leaner yet object-oriented. Consider this ColorPicker example:

var picker = new ui.ColorPicker; picker.el.appendTo('#default-color-picker'); picker.on('change', function(color){ $('.r').text(color.r) $('.g').text(color.g) $('.b').text(color.b) $('.rgb').text(color.toString()).css('background', color) }); 

Check the project web site or source for a list of components and usage.

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