Congratulations on releasing this! I blogged about it at Ajaxian as well: http://ajaxian.com/archives/activerecordjs-released-orm-for-multiple-javascript-environments
Best, Brad [email protected] On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:38 PM, khakman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ryan Johnson and Aptana have released a solid beta of ActiveRecord.js, > an ORM JavaScript library that implements ActiveRecord pattern and > supporting multiple JavaScript environments including, Google Gears, > In Memory (if no SQL server is available on the client), and Adobe AIR > (client-side persistence). It also works on the server-side with > SQLite and MySQL databases (via Aptana Jaxer, the open source Ajax > server that embeds the Mozilla browser engine). HTML5 support is on > the roadmap. > > http://activerecordjs.org. has the source and docs and some examples. > ActiveRecord.js is a single file that has no other library > dependencies. > > When using Gears, this means you can persist JavaScript objects and > their data using pure JavaScript syntax and the ease of the > ActiveRecord pattern. All the underlying SQL commands you'd otherwise > use through the Gears API are encapsulated by ActiveRecord APIs that > are more natural feeling to JavaScript's syntax and object concepts -- > and often take far fewer lines of code to implement. Plus, the skills > you develop using ActiveRecord.js can be leveraged across the other > supported JavaScript runtimes as well. > > Here's a quick example adapted from Ryan's blog post [ > http://www.aptana.com/blog/rjohnson/activerecord_js_released_as_beta > ]: > > - - - - - - - - - - - - > > ActiveRecord.connect(ActiveRecord.Adapters.Local,'my_database'); > //Automatically Connects to Gears if Gears is present. > > var User = ActiveRecord.define('users',{ > username: '', > email: '' > }); > User.hasMany('articles'); > > var ryan = User.create({ > username: 'ryan', > email: '[email protected]' > }); > > var Article = ActiveRecord.define('articles',{ > name: '', > body: '', > user_id: 0 > }); > Article.belongsTo('user'); > > var a = Article.create({ > name: 'Announcing ActiveRecord.js', > user_id: ryan.id > }); > a.set('name','Announcing ActiveRecord.js!!!'); > a.save(); > > a.getUser() == ryan; > ryan.getArticleList()[0] == a; > > - - - - - - - - - - - - > > The Google Group for ActiveRecord.js at > http://groups.google.com/group/activejs/ > > > > > > > >
