[Rails] Re: What if you don't want your model to be from Active Record?

Peter wrote in post #1124413:
> By "wrap together", I meant I would write a single function for all the
> functions I would use from the AWS API.
>
> So, I should put this in the models directory, right? I want the
> controller
> to remain a "controller" with respect to rails-isms.
>
> class MyAWSAPI
> def list_servers
> ... call to AWS API to get list of servers...
> end
>
> def show_server(int)
> ... call to AWS API to get info on server int ...
> end
> end

Yes, that would be a model object and models would be a good place to
put that. You might even consider implementing ActiveModel with your
class and gain some ActiveRecord like behavior, but not actually be an
ActiveRecord subclass. Depends on your needs.

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