Matthew Moore

Here's the applicable code within ActiveResource::Base, which makes it pretty obvious what's going on:

    # Returns the serialized string representation of ...

If you create a new 2.3.2 rails project with an ActiveResource model with format set to JSON, e.g.

class MyModel < ActiveResource::Base
  self.site = "http:...

It seems odd to me that the prefix is stored in a method (by redefining a method when it's set), rather than a variable.

Was there any method to this madness? W...

If you need to set the values for ActiveResource.site with a URI that includes a path, ActiveResource::Base.prefix will be wrong.

Consider this example. If you ...

This actually only applies to ActiveResource::CustomMethods ActiveResource already uses to_param

If you compare the two methods in ActiveResrouce::CustomMethods, you see:

      def post(method_name, options = {}, body = nil)
        request_body = bod...

Let's say you have a resource that uses a permalink to_param, instead of id.

To find this using ActiveResource, you'd usually do something like:

ar = MyActiv...

Actually I've been looking into this more, and it might be better instead to stringify_keys! in the attributes= method like ActiveRecord does. Still thinking ab...

If you look at:

    # Grabs errors from the XML response.
    def from_xml(xml)
      clear
      humanized_attributes = @base.attributes.keys.inject({}) { |...