Using ActiveRecord for Simple Maintenance Scripting
Posted by Corban Brook Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:12:00 GMT
Over the last year the new ruby web framework, Ruby on Rails, has been rapidly maturing and a 1.0 release is due to push before RubyConf2005 in October. Rails is designed for RAD utilizing code generators and scaffolding allowing developers to quickly prototype interfaces to database tables . A great deal of the Rails magic comes from the ActiveRecord library which implements ORM to effectively map database tables to classes and appends CRUD functionality.
The purpose of this article is to show how to use the ActiveRecord library standalone in your own scripts.
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