A lightweight ORM used for database management
To use the library, simply include the lib folder within your project and require the associatable file.
The purpose of this Ruby library is to allow access to a simple and lightweight database management system through the use of the methods provided. Users have access to the basic CRUD operations as well as some Ruby-related helper methods.
The AttrAccessorObject class creates setter and getter methods for each column in the database. This is similar to the ::finalize! class method within the SQLObject class, except with the ::finalize! method it is unnecessary to explicitly name the columns. Instead, all of the table columns are created as setter and getter methods.
The SQLObject class holds the bulk of the functionality, including the #initialize, #update, #insert, and #save instance methods, and the ::find and ::all class methods.
Within the Searchable module, you can find the #where function which allows you to search a database by some specific criteria.
Last but not least, you are able to create #has_many, #belongs_to, and #has_one_through associations.
To run the demo, navigate to the \demo folder and run ruby comments.rb.
Within the demo, three classes are created, with associations, as shown below.
class Comment < SQLObject
belongs_to :post
has_one_through :user, :post, :user
endAfter classes are created, attr_accessor methods are created using ::finalize!.
Comment.finalize!Once the demo has begun, the user is prompted with a menu in the console. Feel free to poke around and view or create comments, posts, or users!