gistfile1.rb

require 'net/http'

class Record
    include ActiveModel::Naming
    include ActiveModel::Validations
    include ActiveModel::Conversion

    attr_accessor :guid
    def id
        @id
    end

    def to_key
        @keys
    end

    def to_model
        self
    end

    def to_param
        id
    end

    def persisted?
        id != ""
    end

    def save

    end

    #class methods

    def self.initialize
        descendant.instance_variable_set(:@keys, keys.dup)
    end

    def self.find(id)
        res = Plato.connection.get("#{@base_url}/#{id}", {"Cookie" => "MatygoSession=#{Plato.session_string}"})
        begin
            res.value # raises error if not 200
        rescue Net::HTTPServerException
        puts "REsponse wasn't 200"
        end

        instance = self.new
        json = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(res.body)["content"] # unwrap content
        instance.from_json(instance, json)
    end

    def self.all
        res = Plato.connection.get("#{@base_url}", {"Cookie" => "MatygoSession=#{Plato.session_string}"})
        begin
            res.value # raises error if not 200
        rescue Net::HTTPServerException
        puts "REsponse wasn't 200"
        end

        retval = Array.new

        json = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(res.body)["content"] # unwrap content
        json.each do |element|
            instance = self.from_json(self.new, element)
            puts instance
            retval << instance
        end
        retval
    end

    def self.from_json(instance, json)
        instance.instance_variable_set("@id", json["guid"])
        self.keys.each do |k|
            temp_k = k.to_s.camelize
            key = temp_k[0, 1].downcase + temp_k[1..-1]
            instance.instance_variable_set("@#{k}", json[key])
        end
        instance
    end

    def self.base_url(url)
        @base_url = url
    end

    def self.keys
        @keys ||= []
    end

    def self.key(*key_names)
        key_names.each do |m|
            keys << m
            define_method(m) do
                instance_variable_get("@#{m}")
            end

            define_method("#{m}=") do |val|
                instance_variable_set("@#{m}",val)
            end
        end
        keys.uniq!
    end
end