How easy is using ActiveRecord in a non RoR application?

Ruby
#1

Hi, I plan to use ActiveRecord in a non RubyOnRails application (just
pure
Ruby app). How easy is it? is just loading the library?

#2

It’s pretty much easy as pie. :slight_smile: It’s along the lines of

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘active_record’

class Model < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :other_models
belongs_to :parent_model

…

end

There’s other database modeling packages out there as well that you
could
consider too – Sequel, DataMapper, etc…

–
Bryan

#3

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Iñaki Baz C. [email protected] wrote:

Hi, I plan to use ActiveRecord in a non RubyOnRails application (just pure
Ruby app). How easy is it? is just loading the library?

Very easy. I wrote a long article about it a while back:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/06/21/how-to-build-simple-console-apps-with-ruby-and-activerecord.html

But you’ll only need bits and pieces of it to get rolling.

-greg

#4

El Lunes, 11 de Agosto de 2008, Iñaki Baz C. escribió:

Hi, I plan to use ActiveRecord in a non RubyOnRails application (just pure
Ruby app). How easy is it? is just loading the library?

Thanks to all, it really seems easy :slight_smile:

#5

Iñaki Baz C. wrote:

Hi, I plan to use ActiveRecord in a non RubyOnRails application (just pure
Ruby app). How easy is it? is just loading the library?

really easy. just go ahead.

#6

On Aug 11, 1:30 pm, Iñaki Baz C. [email protected] wrote:

Hi, I plan to use ActiveRecord in a non RubyOnRails application (just pure
Ruby app). How easy is it? is just loading the library?

–
Iñaki Baz C.

easy. i use activerecord in my db operations as i dont have to break
my head for sql operations. u just create a model class and requrie it
and use it just as u would do in rails.

require ‘active_record’
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
:adapter => “mysql”,
:host => “localhost”,
:database => “mydb”,
:username => “root”
)
class Tag < ActiveRecord::Base
set_table_name “tags”
has_and_belongs_to_many :trades

end