From: Emmanuel Surleau <emmanuel.surleau@...>
Date: 2008-08-31T15:32:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ribs 0.0.1

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On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Ola Bini <ola.bini@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am extremely pleased to announce the first release of Ribs.
>
> Ribs is a library for JRuby, that allows you to persist Ruby objects using
> Hibernate. Some time ago I wrote about ActiveHibernate. I have now decided
> to implement this myself, and the result is the Ribs project.
>
> The first release is quite minimal in scope. You can define and work with
> models that have primitive values only - there is no support for
> associations. You can find, create, update and delete model objects. All of
> this uses Hibernate and JDBC.
>
> To get started, you just define that an object is to be a Ribs model:
>
> class Artist
>  Ribs!
> end
>
> Once that's done, you can start working with it.
>

Personally, I'd favor a more DataMapper-like approach, like this:

class Artist
   include Ribs:Resource
   property :name, :string, :primary_key
end

IMHO, it's not really interesting to use block syntax to define your
properties.

>
> Of course, this is just the beginning. I have a quite long list of things
> I'd like to have in the project, but I felt the need to release quickly and
> often to be more important than to implement everything first.
>
> This release is not really for production usage, but I would appreciate if
> people tried it out and came with suggestions. The current planned features
> can be found in the PLAN file, in the git repository.


I assume you also intend to handle lazy loading. Some kind of automigration
feature would be nice too... At any rate, this looks like a very promising
project for the JRuby crowd.

Cheers,

Emm

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