Specifying ActiveRecord descendents custom views

[joallard]

I have a lot of columns in my model.[1] I love Hirb. Now Hirb can't do all of its magic because I have too many columns. But let's face it, I don't want all the columns. I only want certain columns.

I searched a bit in the docs, and tried the following:

Hirb.add_dynamic_view("Wadget", helper: :auto_table) do |o| 
  {fields: [:id, :name, :token, :important_columns_only]}
end

Though when I called my Wadget.all, this spec is still not activated as expected. I suspect it's because ActiveRecord::Base is there.

I realize I'm probably expanding Hirb's scope a little by asking this, but this is something I think that's not unreasonable to provide, especially with the prevalence of AR.

I'd like to add this to the wishlist: a way to indicate to Hirb fields I want (and this touches on #96 with fields one doesn't want). Ideally, this could be done in the config file, but I'll leave to the creator the liberty to say what he would accept.

What I would propose is to either make what I tried work (either by having add_dynamic_view prepend the list in order of priority, or having Hirb choose a view by the most specific), or being able to specify this in YML config:

views:
  fields:
    activerecord/base:
      exclude:
        - updated_at
        - created_at
        - secret_column
    wadget:
      only:
        - id
        - name
        - important_stuff

[1]: (It's probably not the ideal structure, but it's an old application with a lot of legacy)

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[thams]

any chance this gets done? I'd really like this feature.

[joallard]

I hear pull requests are fun ;o)