From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: 2005-10-04T06:02:41+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveRecord and FXRuby..

On Oct 3, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Mark Cotner wrote:

> The Pragmatic RoR book explains in detail how to do this.  It  
> mostly just
> involves passing in your DB config to ActiveRecord instead of  
> having it in
> the RoR ./config dir.
>
> Someone please correct me if I've misspoken as I have not yet  
> attempted
> actually doing this.

Nope, you're exactly right, Mark.

   require 'active_record'

   ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
     :adapter => "mysql",
     :host => "localhost",
     :username => "me",
     :password => "password"
   )

And then define your classes and away you go. It's pretty  
straightforward.

- Jamis

>
> The book's not in front of me right now, I'll try and paste an  
> example later
> after I check it out.
>
> 'njoy,
> Mark
>
>
> On 10/3/05 3:59 PM, "Lyle Johnson" <lyle.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On 10/3/05, Graham Foster <nowahere@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is there any reason why I can't use ActiveRecord to help build a  
>>> client
>>> based app with FXRuby? If I'm understanding all this MVC stuff  
>>> correctly,
>>> then I'd just be using the M bit in another app. Seems like it  
>>> would save
>>> me a shed-load of work
>>> True?
>>>
>>
>> ActiveRecord is the ORM layer used by Rails, right? I don't think
>> there's any technical reason why this wouldn't work, although I don't
>> know that anyone's actually tried that yet. At any rate, I'd
>> appreciate hearing about your experience with it (especially if you
>> run into any conflicts between FXRuby and ActiveRecord).
>>
>>
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