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Book Review: Dan Ariely (2008) Predictably Irrational, HarperCollins

tamc — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:10:18 +0000

h1. Book Review: Predictably Irrational, HarperCollins

Plus:
* Demonstrates how to popularise academic work without sacrificing careful mention of the authors, method and results
* Demonstrates how small, simple experiments can reveal new knowledge
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PhD

tamc — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:52:34 +0000

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I've finished my PhD. It was on:
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h1. Remove toner: Reuse paper
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_Thomas A. M. Counsell_
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h2. Abstract
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This thesis reports on experiments into whether abra-
sives, lasers or solvents can remove ordinary black toner-
print from ordinary white oﬃce paper in a way that leaves
the paper reusable. If it could be ‘un-printed’ then waste
oﬃce-paper could be reused immediately, without the need
for recycling.
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Paper and board consumption causes approximately
1% of man-made climate change gas emissions. Estimates
in the ﬁrst chapter suggest that un-printing could reduce
emissions per tonne of oﬃce paper by up to 95% – greater
than the potential from incineration, localisation, annual
ﬁbre, ﬁbre recycling, un-printing or electronic paper.
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There has been no academic work on un-printing, but
some relevant patents have been ﬁled. The second chapter
reviews these patents according to whether they remove,
obscure or de-colour the original print. It is not clear from
the patents whether toner-print can be removed by abra-
sives, lasers, or solvents without rendering the paper un-
usable. These three approaches are tested experimentally
and the results reported in chapters 3, 4 & 5.
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Abrasives can remove toner-print with limited dam-
age to the underlying paper by operating in an adhesive
wear regime. This involves making ten passes with a ﬁne
P800 abrasive rubbing at high speeds (6 m/s) and low loads
(0.3 N). Longer wavelength lasers are able to remove the
toner-print and leave blank paper undamaged by operating
at 1 W and 10 kHz in the 1064 nm wavelength and scanning
across the surface eight times at 400 mm/s. Unfortunately
the paper beneath the print is yellowed during removal.
A 40:60 mixture chloroform and dimethylsulfoxide eﬀec-
tively dissolves toner without dissolving paper if agitated
with ultrasound for four minutes.
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Chapter 6 outlines the research required to make the
approaches feasible replacements for conventional paper re-
cycling. The abrasive approach requires research into ex-
tending abrasive life. The laser approach requires research
into avoiding paper yellowing. The solvent approach re-
quires research into benign solvents and solvent recycling.
All three approaches would need to be tested on a wider
range of prints and papers.
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The hypothesis of this project is that it may be possible to overcome these problems by using a different approach to removing ink that does not damage the paper and could be operated within and office. A machine suitable for an office of about 70 people would need to be able to clean the print off about 1.5 tonnes of paper a year, at a rate of one sheet every minute and a half, at a total cost of less than �1400 a year (implying a maximum capital cost of around �7000).
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The work is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councill (EPSRC). Further information may be obtained from Tom Counsell (tamc2@cam.ac.uk) or in my publications.
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History

tamc — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:31:01 +0000

# Worked as a teaching assistant in the department while I ...
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# [[ Carbon Trust => http://www.carbontrust.com ]].
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# Return to Cambridge to study for a PhD and live with my soon-to-be-wife Catherine
# Got married
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# Carbon Trust
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** BA (hons) first class etc followed by a MEng and later the joke/honorary MA.
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Home Page

tamc — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:27:17 +0000

Hello. I work for the [[Carbon Trust => http://www.carbontrust.co.uk]]. I've recently finished a PhD at [[Clare College => www.clare.cam.ac.uk ]], [[ Cambridge University => www.cam.ac.uk ]]. My research was with the [[Production Processes Group => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/pp/ ]] of the [[ Manufacturing Division => www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk ]] of the [[ Engineering Department => www.eng.cam.ac.uk ]]. My supervisor was [[Julian Allwood => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/jma42/ ]]. I was also the teaching assistant on the [[Manufacturing Engineering Tripos => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/met ]] course.
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Hello. I'm currently a PhD student at [[Clare College => www.clare.cam.ac.uk ]], [[ Cambridge University => www.cam.ac.uk ]]. My research is with the [[Production Processes Group => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/pp/ ]] of the [[ Manufacturing Division => www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk ]] of the [[ Engineering Department => www.eng.cam.ac.uk ]]. My supervisor is [[Julian Allwood => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/jma42/ ]]. I am also the teaching assistant on the [[Manufacturing Engineering Tripos => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/met ]] course.
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h1. Thomas Counsell
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PhD

tamc — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:26:08 +0000

I've finished my PhD. It was supervised by [[ Julian Allwood => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/jma42]] and my thesis was titled:
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I've finished my PhD. It was titled:
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You can download a pdf:
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I've finished my PhD. It was on:
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h1. Remove toner: Reuse paper
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_Thomas A. M. Counsell_
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h2. Abstract
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This thesis reports on experiments into whether abra-
sives, lasers or solvents can remove ordinary black toner-
print from ordinary white oﬃce paper in a way that leaves
the paper reusable. If it could be ‘un-printed’ then waste
oﬃce-paper could be reused immediately, without the need
for recycling.
…
Paper and board consumption causes approximately
1% of man-made climate change gas emissions. Estimates
in the ﬁrst chapter suggest that un-printing could reduce
emissions per tonne of oﬃce paper by up to 95% – greater
than the potential from incineration, localisation, annual
ﬁbre, ﬁbre recycling, un-printing or electronic paper.
…
There has been no academic work on un-printing, but
some relevant patents have been ﬁled. The second chapter
reviews these patents according to whether they remove,
obscure or de-colour the original print. It is not clear from
the patents whether toner-print can be removed by abra-
sives, lasers, or solvents without rendering the paper un-
usable. These three approaches are tested experimentally
and the results reported in chapters 3, 4 & 5.
…
Abrasives can remove toner-print with limited dam-
age to the underlying paper by operating in an adhesive
wear regime. This involves making ten passes with a ﬁne
P800 abrasive rubbing at high speeds (6 m/s) and low loads
(0.3 N). Longer wavelength lasers are able to remove the
toner-print and leave blank paper undamaged by operating
at 1 W and 10 kHz in the 1064 nm wavelength and scanning
across the surface eight times at 400 mm/s. Unfortunately
the paper beneath the print is yellowed during removal.
A 40:60 mixture chloroform and dimethylsulfoxide eﬀec-
tively dissolves toner without dissolving paper if agitated
with ultrasound for four minutes.
…
Chapter 6 outlines the research required to make the
approaches feasible replacements for conventional paper re-
cycling. The abrasive approach requires research into ex-
tending abrasive life. The laser approach requires research
into avoiding paper yellowing. The solvent approach re-
quires research into benign solvents and solvent recycling.
All three approaches would need to be tested on a wider
range of prints and papers.
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[[ insert publications ]]
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[[ insert my publications ]]
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The hypothesis of this project is that it may be possible to overcome these problems by using a different approach to removing ink that does not damage the paper and could be operated within and office. A machine suitable for an office of about 70 people would need to be able to clean the print off about 1.5 tonnes of paper a year, at a rate of one sheet every minute and a half, at a total cost of less than �1400 a year (implying a maximum capital cost of around �7000).
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The work is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councill (EPSRC). Further information may be obtained from Tom Counsell (tamc2@cam.ac.uk) or in my publications.
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publications

tamc — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:25:05 +0000

Some of the material in my PhD thesis has been published in Journals and presented at conferences. In all cases my supervisor, [[ Julian Allwood => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/jma42 ]], was co-author:
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and presented at conferences. In all cases my supervisor, [[ Julian
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2006.03.018
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2005.11.017
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Some of the material in my PhD thesis has been published in Journals
and presented at conferences. In all cases my supervisor, Julian
Allwood, was co-author:
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h2. Journal papers (published)
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# Reducing climate change gas emissions by cutting out stages in
the life-cycle of oﬃce paper. Journal of Resources, Conservation
and Recycling, 49(4):340–352, 2007.
doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2006.03.018
# Desktop paper recycling: A survey of novel technologies that might
recycle oﬃce paper within the oﬃce. Journal of Materials Pro-
cessing Technology, 173(1):111–123, 2006.
doi:10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2005.11.017
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h2. Journal papers (pending)
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# Using abrasives to remove toner-print so that oﬃce paper might
be reused. Submitted to Wear, 2007.
# Revisiting the “laser eraser”: Using a laser to remove a toner-
print so that oﬃce paper might be reused. Submitted to Applied
Physics A, 2007.
# Using solvents to remove a toner-print so that oﬃce paper might
be reused. Submitted to Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2007.
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h3. Conference papers
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# Rethinking oﬃce paper recycling. In 4th International conference
on design and manufacture for sustainable development, Newcas-
tle, 12-13 July 2005.
# The feasibility and environmental consequences of scale change in
oﬃce paper production. In ISIE 2005, Stockholm, 12-15 June.
# Un-printing toner: Early results. In 13th CIRP Intl. Conference
on Life Cycle Engineering, Leuven, 31 May – 2 Jun 2006.
http://www.mech.kuleuven.be/lce2006/122.pdf.
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Stuff I do around the department

tamc — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:06:24 +0000

* Taken the third year engineers on trips to [[ Jaguar => www.jaguar.co.uk ]], [[ Delphi => www.delphi.com ]] and [[ MK Electric => http://www.mkelectric.co.uk/]].
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* Some Materials supervising of second year undergraduate engineers at Clare college, maths supervising of first year undergraduate engineers at Caius college and Automation and Control supervising of third year undergraduate engineers studying MET.
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* Teaching assistant for the [[Manufacturing Engineering Tripos => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/met/ ]] course.
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* Some Materials supervising of second year undergraduate engineers at Clare college and maths supervising of first year undergraduate engineers at Caius college.
* Taken the third year engineers on a trip to [[ Jaguar => www.jaguar.co.uk ]] and more recently [[ Delphi => www.delphi.com ]].
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* Given some talks as part of the [[ MET => www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk ]] undergraduate course and [[ MPhil in engineering for sustainable development => http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustdev/mphil.html]].
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* Organised a two day workshop on "Research Methodology" for new PhDs and academics from across the UK (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/ifmrmw/).
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* Starting to work with my supervisor to establish a sustainable manufacturing group (http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustainability/).
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Rants

tamc — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:04:02 +0000

h1. Rants

Below are various rants. They may once have represented my opinion. They probably don't any more. I'm fickle.
* Allocating carbon emissions
* If you are mentally ill, what is the probability you are a murderer?
* Key questions about sustainable development
* Roads good for the environment
* SUVs
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History

tamc — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:14:30 +0000

# Return to Cambridge to study for a PhD and live with my soon-to-be-wife Catherine...
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Roads good for the environment

tamc — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:40:35 +0000

But what does "Better" mean in this context? Looking at the Norwegian [[study => http://www.erf.be/images/Environmental_consequences_of_better_roads_English_Summary.pdf ]] that the report cites as its source, better seems to mean 'quicker for cars'.
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They then go and ruin it by trying to claiming that that "The same [Norwegian] study indicated that in a majority of cases, the changes [more road capacity] did not generate new car trips, putting an end to one of the most enduring transport myths"

I'm not sure that myth can be put to an end, given the (English summary) of the study says: "The results of the study show that we get a substantial growth in car traffic when the capacity of the congested urban motorway is increased by one extra lane ... and the results more or less emphasizes the “old truth” that when cities are larger than a certain size, it is more or less impossible to solve the traffic problems by increasing the road capacities."
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Two other points of note:

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h1. Roads "good for the environment"

So runs the headline in a WBCSD news item on a [[new report => http://www.erf.be/images/IRF_BPC_on_Sustainable_Roads_April_2007.pdf ]] funded, unsurprisingly enough, by the [[European Road Federation => http://www.erf.be]].

It is interesting what a difference a word makes. The actual press release makes the slightly less controversial claim: "Better roads good for the environment".

But what does "Better" mean in this context? Looking at the Norwegian [[main study => http://www.erf.be/images/Environmental_consequences_of_better_roads_English_Summary.pdf ]] that the report cites as its source, better seems to mean 'quicker for cars'.

So a more appropriate headline might have been "traffic is bad for the environment" which I think we can all agree on, and perhaps even shorten: "traffic is bad".

So much for headlines.

The headline that I think the European Road Federation were grasping for was "less road capacity does not mean less pollution", unless less roads results in less cars. A useful point.

They then go and ruin it by trying to claiming that that "The same [Norwegian] study indicated that in a majority of cases, the changes [more road capacity] did not generate new car trips, putting an end to one of the most enduring transport myths", which seems extreme given that the (English summary) of the study says: "The results of the study show that we get a substantial growth in car traffic when the capacity of the congested urban motorway is increased by one extra lane ... and the results more or less emphasizes the “old truth” that when cities are larger than a certain size, it is more or less impossible to solve the traffic problems by increasing the road capacities.". For other types of road they indicate that better roads will speed cars and buses equally and so make no change in traffic. Bit of a bold assertion I think.

* The independent Norwegian study was paid for by the Norwegian Road Federation

* The other suggestions in the European Road Federation report look sensible: take into account the environmental impact of new roads, build them in more environmentally sound ways.
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Stuff I do around the department

tamc — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:29:35 +0000

* Some Materials supervising of second year undergraduate engineers at Clare college, maths supervising of first year undergraduate engineers at Caius college and Automation and Control supervising of third year undergraduate engineers studying MET.
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* Teaching assistant for the [[Manufacturing Engineering Tripos => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/met/ ]] course.
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* Some Materials supervising of second year undergraduate engineers at Clare college and maths supervising of first year undergraduate engineers at Caius college.
* Taken the third year engineers on a trip to [[ Jaguar => www.jaguar.co.uk ]] and more recently [[ Delphi => www.delphi.com ]].
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* Given some talks as part of the [[ MET => www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk ]] undergraduate course and [[ MPhil in engineering for sustainable development => http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustdev/mphil.html]].
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* Organised a two day workshop on "Research Methodology" for new PhDs and academics from across the UK (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/ifmrmw/).
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* Starting to work with my supervisor to establish a sustainable manufacturing group (http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustainability/).
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Stuff I do around the department

tamc — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:18:43 +0000

* Teaching assistant for the [[Manufacturing Engineering Tripos => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/met/ ]] course.
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* Some Materials supervising of second year undergraduate engineers at Clare college and maths supervising of first year undergraduate engineers at Caius college.
* Taken the third year engineers on a trip to [[ Jaguar => www.jaguar.co.uk ]] and more recently [[ Delphi => www.delphi.com ]].
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* Given some talks as part of the [[ MET => www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk ]] undergraduate course and [[ MPhil in engineering for sustainable development => http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustdev/mphil.html]].
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* Organised a two day workshop on "Research Methodology" for new PhDs and academics from across the UK (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/ifmrmw/).
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* Starting to work with my supervisor to establish a sustainable manufacturing group (http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustainability/).
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Home Page

tamc — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:17:48 +0000

Hello. I'm currently a PhD student at [[Clare College => www.clare.cam.ac.uk ]], [[ Cambridge University => www.cam.ac.uk ]]. My research is with the [[Production Processes Group => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/pp/ ]] of the [[ Manufacturing Division => www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk ]] of the [[ Engineering Department => www.eng.cam.ac.uk ]]. My supervisor is [[Julian Allwood => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/jma42/ ]]. I am also the teaching assistant on the [[Manufacturing Engineering Tripos => http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/met ]] course.
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Early experiences with Active Resource

tamc2 — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:23:08 +0000

You can then get an object:
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There is an error if you try and @find(:all)@ and no objects exists.
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I made this changes to get a create function:

[[ActiveResource::Base => http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb#L65]]



def save
    id ? update : create
end



def create
  attributes["id"] = connection.post(self.class.collection_path, to_xml)
end

[[ActiveResource::Base => http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb#L54]]



def post(path, body)
  response = request(:post, path, body)
  return response['Location'][/\/([^\/]*?)$/,1] # The id
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h2. Post / Create

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h1. Early experiences with Active Resource

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At the recent RailsConf David Heinemeier Hansson announced his ideas for an active resource library in [[rails => http://www.rubyonrails.com ]]. His slides are available [[ here => http://www.loudthinking.com/lt-files/worldofresources.pdf ]].

Unfortunately the early version he checked into the [[ rails edge repository => http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/activeresource ]] doesn't quite match his slides.

Below are my (in progress) notes on getting it to work.

h2. Pre-requisites

You need edge rails: @rake rails:freeze:edge@

You need some rest-ful type routes. I've used: @script/plugin install simply_restful@

You need a controller that has the same name as your model (e.g. PeopleController) with index, new, create, show, edit, update and delete methods. Each of these needs to respond sensibly to xml requests, e.g.:



  def show
    @patch = Patch.find(params[:id])
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.xml { render :xml => @patch.to_xml }
    end
  end

h2. Initialization

The example that DHH gave:



Person = ActiveResource::Struct.new do |person|
  person.uri = "http://api.myremote.com/people" 
  person.credentials :name => "me", :password => "password" 
end

What works in the code:



Person = ActiveResource::Struct.create
Person.site = "http://api.myremote.com/people"

h2. Get

You can then get the object, as expected:



p = Person.find 1

h2. Put / Post / Update

Saving doesn't work, because ActiveResource doesn't set the content-type. Adding this at the start of the request method in [[ActiveResource::Connection => http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/activeresource/lib/active_resource/connection.rb#L60]] seems to help:



arguments << { 'content-type' => 'application/xml' }

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h2. Pre-requisites

You need edge rails: @rake rails:freeze:edge@

You need some rest-ful type routes. I've used: @script/plugin install simply_restful@

You need a controller that has the same name as your model (e.g. PeopleController) with index, new, create, show, edit, update and delete methods. Each of these needs to respond sensibly to xml requests, e.g.:



  def show
    @patch = Patch.find(params[:id])
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.xml { render :xml => @patch.to_xml }
    end
  end

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Saving doesn't work, because ActiveResource doesn't set the content-type. Adding this at the start of the request method in [[ActiveResource::Connection => http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/activeresource/lib/active_resource/connection.rb#L60]] seems to help:
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h2. Put / Post / Update
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h1. Early experiences with Active Resource

At the recent RailsConf David Heinemeier Hansson announced his ideas for an active resource library in [[rails => http://www.rubyonrails.com ]]. His slides are available [[ here => http://www.loudthinking.com/lt-files/worldofresources.pdf ]].

Unfortunately the early version he checked into the [[ rails edge repository => http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/activeresource ]] doesn't quite match his slides.

Below are my (in progress) notes on getting it to work.

h2. Initialization

The example that DHH gave:



Person = ActiveResource::Struct.new do |person|
  person.uri = "http://api.myremote.com/people" 
  person.credentials :name => "me", :password => "password" 
end

What works in the code:



Person = ActiveResource::Struct.create
Person.site = "http://api.myremote.com/people"

You can then get the object, as expected:



p = Person.find 1

Saving doesn't work, because ActiveResource doesn't set the content-type. Adding this at the start of the request method in [[ActiveResource::Connection => http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/activeresource/lib/active_resource/connection.rb]] seems to help:



arguments << { 'content-type' => 'application/xml' }

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