Adding ActiveResource support to Rails 1.2

Posted by dave
on January 25, 2007 @ 10:00 AM

Rails 1.2 was released earlier in the week with lots of cool new features but w/o ActiveResource or an ActiveResource gem. The good news is that you can add ActiveResource support by moving your application to edge rails and then check out ActiveResource as shown below. 

>rails myapp
>cd myapp
>rake rails:freeze:edge
>cd vendor/rails
>svn co http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk/activeresource activeresource

Now you have a Rails app with ActiveResource support.

Note: I tried just checking ActiveResource into vendor/plugins but it conflicted with version 1.4.0 of ActiveSupport that ships with Rails 1.2. I had to move to edge rails to make it work.