From 51408990411411f3bf0826cdd0c042f9ccc0c7c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:12:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Added ExtendedDocument.create({}) and #create!({}) so you
 don't have to do Model.new.create

---
 history.txt                              |  3 ++-
 lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb  | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/history.txt b/history.txt
index b434056..f691eae 100644
--- a/history.txt
+++ b/history.txt
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@
 * Major enhancements
 
   * Created an abstraction HTTP layer to support different http adapters (Matt Aimonetti)
+  * Added ExtendedDocument.create({}) and #create!({}) so you don't have to do Model.new.create (Matt Aimonetti)
   
 * Minor enhancements
   
-  * Optimized Model.count to run about 3x faster (Matt Aimonetti)
+  * Optimized ExtendedDocument.count to run about 3x faster (Matt Aimonetti)
   * Added Float casting (Ryan Felton & Matt Aimonetti)
 
 == 0.30
diff --git a/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb b/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb
index 14006ed..7fd067a 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb
@@ -52,8 +52,25 @@ module CouchRest
       end
     end
     
-
+    # Defines an instance and save it directly to the database 
+    # 
+    # ==== Returns
+    #  returns the reloaded document
+    def self.create(options)
+      instance = new(options)
+      instance.create
+      instance
+    end
     
+    # Defines an instance and save it directly to the database 
+    # 
+    # ==== Returns
+    #  returns the reloaded document or raises an exception
+    def self.create!(options)
+      instance = new(options)
+      instance.create!
+      instance
+    end
     
     # Automatically set <tt>updated_at</tt> and <tt>created_at</tt> fields
     # on the document whenever saving occurs. CouchRest uses a pretty
diff --git a/spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb b/spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb
index 618ee0c..5d71d7f 100644
--- a/spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb
@@ -97,6 +97,22 @@ describe "ExtendedDocument" do
     end
   end
   
+  describe "creating a new document" do
+    it "should instantialize and save a document" do
+      article = Article.create(:title => 'my test')
+      article.title.should == 'my test'
+      article.should_not be_new_document 
+    end 
+    
+    it "should trigger the create callbacks" do
+      doc = WithCallBacks.create(:name => 'my other test') 
+      doc.run_before_create.should be_true
+      doc.run_after_create.should be_true
+      doc.run_before_save.should be_true
+      doc.run_after_save.should be_true
+    end
+  end
+  
   describe "update attributes without saving" do
     before(:each) do
       a = Article.get "big-bad-danger" rescue nil