Or a "dump" method which adapters could optionally define?

On 04/28/2011 12:44 PM, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
>
> Um; I'd rather an adapter method that's something more like:
>
> to_native_query(query) => SQL for RDBMS, but allows other query
> languages too.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> --Ivan
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> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Ted Han <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     Hey Kane,
>
>     I've been chatting w/ dkubb a bit.  Rather than a Query#to_sql
>     method i'd suggest having a #sql_from(query) method on adapters
>     (or whatever we call it).  Do you have feelings on the subject?
>
>     There's a bunch of stuff you can do with the Query API, but it's a
>     bit of a mess.  I would be interested to know more about the
>     details about what you're trying to cleanup and the like, since
>     that'd be useful to know what improvements can be made to the SQL
>     generator and to the API in general.
>
>     -T
>
>     On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Kane Baccigalupi
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>         We have a very big app in Sinatra. I set up logging when we
>         switched
>         to Datamapper, which is how we are able to look at our
>         development and
>         tests logs to determine the final SQL. That isn't what I am
>         looking
>         for, because we already have that. I am looking for a way,
>         preferably
>         in tests to be able to inspect the SQL string generated by ?query?
>         objects. Clearly the string is generated before it is sent to the
>         database, so where is that string so that we can make assertions
>         against it.
>
>         Why would I want to do this? Did I mention that we have a very big
>         application? Some or our joins combine many datamapper query
>         objects
>         with intersection, or, and ... Very ofter postgres is fussy
>         about such
>         things as the order of clauses, sub-selects, requirements in
>         the where
>         clause. We are having performance issues related to this
>         fussiness,
>         and because we do test driven development, we would like to
>         match our
>         queries to assure no regressions as our code changes or we update
>         gems.
>
>         So, Ted's solution is by far the best. Thanks Ted.
>
>         I can build a method on our search object that does this kind
>         of thing
>         with less verbosity. But I would really like my query all put
>         together, with the question marks dumped supplanted already with
>         variables. This will be good enough, but I would love it all.
>
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