How to dynamic create models with RoR and mongodb? - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm trying to create a dynamic application to create any kind of data needed through metaprogramming the MVC i tried this for models:
class DynamicRecord
attr_accessor :name, :attributes
def initialize(name, attributes = [])
raise "Error: Constant #{name} already in namespace" if name.in? Object.constants
a_new_class = Class.new(Object) do |clazz|
include Mongoid::Document
attributes.map do |attribute|
field attribute[:name], type: attribute[:type]
end
end
Object.const_set(name, a_new_class)
end
end
DynamicRecord.new('Person', [{name: :name, type: String}, {name: :email, type: String}])
person = Person.new(name: "Foo", email: "Foo#foo.com")
person.save
Then I get this error:
Mongo::Error::OperationFailure: Invalid ns [mongodb_divcad_development.] (16257)
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongo-2.4.1/lib/mongo/operation/result.rb:256:in `validate!'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongo-2.4.1/lib/mongo/operation/write/insert.rb:60:in `block in execute_message'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongo-2.4.1/lib/mongo/server/connection_pool.rb:107:in `with_connection'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongo-2.4.1/lib/mongo/server.rb:242:in `with_connection'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongo-2.4.1/lib/mongo/operation/write/insert.rb:59:in `execute_message'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongo-2.4.1/lib/mongo/operation/write/write_command_enabled.rb:39:in `execute'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongo-2.4.1/lib/mongo/collection.rb:365:in `block in insert_one'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongo-2.4.1/lib/mongo/retryable.rb:112:in `write_with_retry'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongo-2.4.1/lib/mongo/collection.rb:356:in `insert_one'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongoid-5.2.0/lib/mongoid/query_cache.rb:182:in `insert_one_with_clear_cache'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongoid-5.2.0/lib/mongoid/persistable/creatable.rb:79:in `insert_as_root'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongoid-5.2.0/lib/mongoid/persistable/creatable.rb:27:in `block in insert'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongoid-5.2.0/lib/mongoid/persistable/creatable.rb:118:in `block (2 levels) in prepare_insert'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/activesupport-4.0.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:373:in `_run__4510143668266298615__create__callbacks'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/activesupport-4.0.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:80:in `run_callbacks'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongoid-5.2.0/lib/mongoid/interceptable.rb:138:in `run_callbacks'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongoid-5.2.0/lib/mongoid/persistable/creatable.rb:117:in `block in prepare_insert'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/activesupport-4.0.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:373:in `_run__4510143668266298615__save__callbacks'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/activesupport-4.0.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:80:in `run_callbacks'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongoid-5.2.0/lib/mongoid/interceptable.rb:138:in `run_callbacks'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongoid-5.2.0/lib/mongoid/persistable/creatable.rb:116:in `prepare_insert'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongoid-5.2.0/lib/mongoid/persistable/creatable.rb:23:in `insert'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/mongoid-5.2.0/lib/mongoid/persistable/savable.rb:23:in `save'
from (irb):70
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/railties-4.0.2/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:90:in `start'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/railties-4.0.2/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:9:in `start'
from /home/cassiano/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3/gems/railties-4.0.2/lib/rails/commands.rb:62:in `<top (required)>'
from bin/rails:4:in `require'
from bin/rails:4:in `<main>'
This can be done? There is a better approach without falling into a Entity-attribute-value model?

Answer 1

Mongoid doesn't know about namespace when you try to use dynamic model. In order to fix it you should set namespace with store_in
Example:
class DynamicCollection
def self.create(collection, fields)
klass = Class.new do
include Mongoid::Document
store_in collection: collection.downcase
fields.each do |item|
field item[:name], type: item[:type]
end
end
Object.const_set(collection, klass)
end
end
fields = [
{name: 'name', type: String},
{name: 'email', type: String}
]
DynamicCollection.create('Demo', fields)
Demo.create!(name: 'SomeValue', email: 'SomeValue')

Answer 2

I didn't try this locally, and this could be a dumb answer...but I would change
attributes.map to attributes.each seems like map would return an array and would cause an error.
Also...
https://github.com/mongodb/mongoid/blob/master/lib/mongoid/fields.rb#L335
Looking at the source for mongoid. There is a method called add_field that you maybe able to utilize.