From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T12:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: KirbyBase [ANN (sort-of)] proof-of-concept KirbyBase ORM

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On Sep 13, 2005, at 7:57 PM, Logan Capaldo wrote:

>
> Well after hacking away today for a couple of hours I've come up  
> with the beginnings of a rudimentary ORM for KirbyBase. I'll post  
> what I have so far, and people can let me know if they are  
> interested in a more complete version. It currently looks a lot  
> like ActiveRecord, but obviously not as powerful. First it doesn't  
> do ActiveRecords pluralization magic, although that should be easy  
> to add. Secondly it doesn't have as many variations of find (but  
> that's mitigated by KirbyBases's use of ruby syntax to perform  
> selections). I've only implemented one kind of relationship (one-to- 
> many, or is it many-to-one, some db guy can correct me on my  
> terminology) using a ActiveRecord-esque has_many method. Some other  
> problems include that it doesn't yet do ruby-esque getters and  
> setters (ie. obj.something, and obj.something = value) instead it  
> has get_something and set_something methods. I did this since I was  
> just hacking away its easily remedied if anyone shows any interest  
> in my continuing this. One other thing, it does not make use of  
> KirbyBase's Link type yet, although if it did, it would probably be  
> better. Again something to add if anyone really wants to use this.  
> I learned a couple of things developing this, mostly that  
> @@variables are evil, and that class instance vars are better.  
> Without further ado here is the code. Its followed by some examples:
>
<snip great stuff>

     I for one think this is pretty sweet. I'm going to play with it  
and give you some feedback. I think this would definitely be a worthy  
project to flesh out more.

Cheers-
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
WebMaster
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper
ezra@yakima-herald.com
509-577-7732

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