From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-07-21T12:58:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Mongoose 0.1.1


On Jul 20, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Daniel Sheppard wrote:

>> But, this limited success leads me to believe that I might be *much*
>> more successful using Mongoose with Rails, because Mongoose
>> is going to
>> stick very close to the ActiveRecord api.  So, it might be as easy as
>> having your model classes subclass Mongoose::Table, instead of
>> ActiveRecord::Base.  Things that wouldn't work would be stuff like
>> migrations, I think.  Also, it would be great if I could
>> figure out how
>> to get the integrated errors working like the ActiveRecord
>> stuff does.
>> I haven't really looked at that.
>
> You've aroused my curiosity. Had a little bit of trouble figuring out
> how to use mongoose (some example code would have been nice), but the
> following gets some validation going. I couldn't get
> validates_presence_of to work for some reason, but here's
> validates_numericality_of working. Putting together a
> Mongoose::ActiveTable that has most of the functionality of an
> activerecord doesn't look to be that difficult. If implementations of
> the rest of the methods on ActiveRecord::Base were added, you'd be  
> able
> to use validations and the other activerecord modules.
>

There's example code distributed with Mongoose. (It's actually the  
same examples from KirbyBase, re written in a Mongoosian style.)