From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T02:01:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongoose 0.2.0


On Jul 21, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Jamey Cribbs wrote:

> 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
>

I'm just too slow with sending in my patches. ;)