ActiveRecord::Aggregations::ClassMethods

Active Record implements aggregation through a macro-like class method called composed_of for representing attributes as value objects. It expresses relationships like “Account [is] composed of Money [among other things]” or “Person [is] composed of [an] address”. Each call to the macro adds a description of how the value objects are created from the attributes of the entity object (when the entity is initialized either as a new object or from finding an existing object) and how it can be turned back into attributes (when the entity is saved to the database).

class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
  composed_of :balance, class_name: "Money", mapping: %w(balance amount)
  composed_of :address, mapping: [ %w(address_street street), %w(address_city city) ]
end

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