From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-02-13T07:02:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparing Active Record VS Datamapper...?


On Feb 12, 2008, at 10:13 AM, S. Potter wrote:

> Actually for Ruby programmers as opposed to people that only know APIs
> in Ruby, extending the APIs for specific use-cases is very  
> painless.  To
> get people started to solve this though (as I do not have permission  
> to
> post the whole code in public yet) you would override the relevant
> connection adapters (e.g.
> ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::PostgreSQLAdapter, etc.) and  
> redefine
> the #column method to accept (in our case) :default_sql, which  
> wouldn't
> escape the SQL string passed to it.  It is good practice to override  
> all
> standard connection adapters even if you do not use them, because you
> never know who might start using SQLite3 on the team in development or
> test environments.  Especially if you roll these AR extensions out  
> on an
> IT-wide or cross-project basis.


yes of course, i've done it several times, here's the whole code:

   http://drawohara.com/post/6677354

this is *way* beyond the abilities of most programmers, however, ruby  
or not, and is a definite limitation of AR, which binds the hands of  
people who know sql at even a moderate level.

regards

a @ http://drawohara.com/
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