From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-04-09T00:44:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [EVALUATION] - E04 - jamPersist Evaluation Case Applied to Ruby

Kirk Haines <khaines@enigo.com> writes:

> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
>
>>> Kansas (http://enigo.com/projects/kansas),
>> 
>> seems to be in development.
>> 
>> status: alpha.
>
> sodiums = dbh.select(:Chemicals, :Manufacturers) do |c,m|
>   (c.chemical_name =~ '%sodium%') && (c.manufacturer.name =~ '%flynn%')
> end
>
> chlorides = dbh.select(:Chemicals) {|c| c.chemical_name =~ '%chloride%'}
>
> sodium_chlorides = sodiums & chlorides
>
> sodium_chlorides.each {|x| x.chemical_name = x.chemical_name.upcase}
>
> That hardly looks like SQL.

I have looked at a fair lot of these ORM, and Kansas is probably the
one that forces you to write least SQL of all (for real-life
applications, at least).

> Kirk Haines
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