每天一剂Rails良药之Make Dumb Data Smart with composed_of

ActiveRecord有一个composed_of()方法用来声明组件关系，如:
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class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
composed_of :address,
:class_name => "Address",
:mapping => [%w(address_street street),
%w(address_city city),
%w(address_state state),
%w(address_country country)]

class Address
attr_accessor :street, :city, :state, :country
def initialize(street, city, state, country)
@street = street
@city = city
@state = state
@country = country
end
end
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这样我们就声明Person composed_of Address的关系，这将映射people表的address_street，address_city，address_state和address_country域到Address类，允许你将address作为first-class对象来操作，但是Address类没有继承ActiveRecord::Base，它只是用来结构化数据和面向对象操作。
需要注意的是
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person.address.city = "LA"
person.save
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这不会更新person的city字段，因为composed_of()的值对象被认为是immutable的，而只有new一个Address对象才能保存
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person.address = Address.new(...)
person.save
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