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chrisbisnett
chrisbisnett

Reputation: 83

ActiveRestClient child classes inherit base class settings

While trying to create a base class using ActiveRestClient in Rails 4.2.0, I've run into an issue trying to configure settings in a base class and have those inherited by child classes.

class Foo::Base < ActiveRestClient::Base
  base_url "https://example.com/api/v1"
  username "testuser"
  password "testpassword"
  request_body_type :json
end

class Foo::Thing < Foo::Base
  get :all, "/things"
end

I get no errors but when performing Foo::Thing.all it throws URI::InvalidURIError. The same method works if the settings from Foo::Base are moved into Foo::Thing.

It also works if the base class modifies the settings directly in the parent class using ActiveRestClient::Base.base_url = "..." but that is a global change and not ideal.

I have several models that all use the same base settings, so it would make sense to set them in a base class and inherit from it.

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