How can I serialize and communicate ActiveRecord instances across identical Rails apps?
- by Blaine LaFreniere
The main idea is that I have several worker instances of a Rails app, and then a main aggregate
I want to do something like this with the following pseudo pseudo-code
posts = Post.all.to_json( :include => { :comments => { :include => :blah } })
# send data to another, identical, exactly the same Rails app
# ...
# Fast forward to the separate but identical Rails app:
# ...
# remote_posts is the posts results from the first Rails app
posts = JSON.parse(remote_posts)
posts.each do |post|
p = Post.new
p = post
p.save
end
I'm shying away from Active Resource because I have thousands of records to create, which would mean thousands of requests for each record. Unless there is a way to do it all in one request with Active Resource that is simple, I'd like to avoid it.
Format doesn't matter. Whatever makes it convenient.
The IDs don't need to be sent, because the other app will just be creating records and assigning new IDs in the "aggregate" system.
The hierarchy would need to be preserved (E.g. "Hey other Rails app, I have genres, and each genre has an artist, and each artist has an album, and each album has songs" etc.)
