From: Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T01:49:22+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Mongoose 0.2.0

You can download it from:  http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongoose/

*What's New*

Thanks, to Ezra Zygmuntowicz, this release features a much cleaner query 
language, so I decided to get this out before anyone gets too used to 
the old version.  Ezra pointed out how I could eliminate having to pass 
the table's class as a block parameter to the query, and also eliminate 
having to qualify every column name in the query with the table's 
class.  So, a query that looked like this:

Plane.find do |plane|
    plane.speed > 350
    plane.any do
        plane.country == 'USA'  
        plane.country == 'Great Britain'
    end
end

Now, looks like this:

Plane.find do
    speed > 350
    any do
        country == 'USA'
        country == 'Great Britain'
    end
end

Much cleaner.  Thanks Ezra!

Also, Ezra contributed a Table.create method and Logan Capaldo 
contributed a fix to eliminate a string eval.  There is a new example 
script from Daniel Sheppard showing how to integrate ActiveRecord 
validations into Mongoose.  Plus the usual code cleanup and bug fixes.

*What is Mongoose?*

Mongoose is a database management system written in Ruby.  It has an 
ActiveRecord-like interface, uses Skiplists for its indexing, and 
Marshal for its data serialization.  I named it Mongoose, because, like 
Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, my aim is for it to be small, quick, 
and friendly.

You can find rudimentary documentation in the README file and some 
sample scripts in the example directory.

Jamey Cribbs
jcribbs@netpromi.com