From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-04-01T15:19:58+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Kansas 0.0.1


What Is Kansas?
===============

Kansas is a simple Object-Relational mapping layer for Ruby. It takes
a relational schema, accessible via Ruby's DBI layer, and converts it
in to a set of Ruby classes, one per table. Each class contains a set
of accessors corresponding to the columns in the table.

It is intended to be lightweight and easy to use to simplify interactions 
with a relational database.

Kansas is currently ALPHA code.  It's useable alpha code, and I don't 
really expect the core features of the API to change significantly, but it 
has some serious rough edges and missing pieces.  Don't use it for 
anything important, yet.  That said, I would love it if anyone would 
tinker with it a bit and give me some feedback.

It can be found on RubyForge:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/kansas

I also have the first draft of a portion of a tutorial on using Kansas 
available:

http://enigo.com/projects/kansas

This is a living document.  If you are looking at it tomorrow, it _will_ 
be wriggling around and growing a bit.  I'd appreciate any comments anyone 
might have on how to make it a better tutorial.


Thanks,

Kirk Haines