Can't load gem without ActiveRecord

[jpowell]

This gem assumes your project is using ActiveRecord and fails in the boot process. Does it make sense to assume the ORM? Should ContentfulRails be extending ActiveRecord::Migration with something from ContentfulModel? This coupling is troublesome when you have a thin client and are using contentful as your database...

[dlitvakb]

I will look into removing this hard dependency.

Cheers

[reidcooper]

Running into the same issue.

[jpowell]

@reidcooper

We've built a gem that auto generates all your classes, and has some helpful rails specific (but not dependent) tooling around webhooks, reindexing, etc.

https://github.com/watermarkchurch/wcc-contentful

Theoretically, you could alias your namespace (ex, Contentful = WCC::Contentful) and use similar to how you'd use the other contentful gem. It's not a one-to-one replacement for theirs, as we've encompassed a few different patterns from the rails and ruby gems, as well as the ContentfulModel gem.

Let me know if you have any feedback (if you take a look)

[reidcooper]

@jpowell Hey i was taking a look at your gem. How do I integrate it? Similar to this rails gem here?

[dlitvakb]

Hey @reidcooper & @jpowell,

I'm currently on parental leave, I'm back on August 1st. I will remove the dependency as soon as I'm back.

Cheers

Edit: That said, ActiveSupport will remain as a dependency.

[jpowell]

congrats @dlitvakb!

@reidcooper moved convo here