From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-11-24T00:27:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Active Record out of rails: still assumes id?

On 11/22/06, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 21, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Damphyr wrote:
>
> > Chris Gallagher wrote:
> >> unknown wrote:
> >> I solved this by just throwing in the id field. Wasnt really a big
> >> thing to do.
> > I'm actually using active record in a similar fashion. I just want
> > the ORM (with the thinking that at some point in the very near
> > future I can use Rails to give me a nice frontend for my data).
> >
> > The one thing I miss is the whole Rails infrastructure for putting
> > the db schema in YAML and automating the migrations, but I would
> > still recommend using migrations, even if you have to code them.
> > That way all the nice :has_many etc. works without thinking.
> > That said, I still structured the app using the Rails conventions
> > so that when I use Rails I can dump my coded migrations and
> > leverage the scripts.
> > Btw. Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd ed (the beta book) is an
> > enormous help for figuring things out, even if you just want to use
> > active record :).
> > And no, I have no affiliation whatsoever with Andy or Dave :)
> > Cheers,
> > V.-
>
>
>         I was able to get ActiveRecord migrations working outside of rails
> by tweaking the rake tasks and a little scripting. My little web
> framework called Merb uses AR but does migrations in a similar way to
> rails. Here are the relevant files to look at if you want to do
> something similar:
>
> http://svn.devjavu.com/merb/lib/tasks/db.rake
>
> http://svn.devjavu.com/merb/examples/sample_app/script/new_migration


Great stuff!