On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:38:15 PM UTC-7, Jeremy Evans wrote: > > In a fairly unusual step for Sequel, I have pushed another public branch > to GitHub, named consvals. From the commit message: > > The extension allows you to create database constraints that mirror > model validations when creating and altering tables. It adds > validation to a separate table. The plugin reads the metadata > from that table, and uses it to automatically validate your models > before saving. > > The advantage to doing so is that your validations are only specified > in one place, but are enforced both at the model level and at the > database level. This is better for data integrity, since it > enforces the validation for all rows in the database, so changes > made by external programs or via the dataset layer are still > covered. > > > I've thought about doing this for a long time, but only recently figured > out a good way to implement this. Usually, I would just merge something > like this into the master branch, but as the extension creates its own > table, it will be quite a pain to modify the schema for the table later. > To avoid potential problems in the future, I would like to get some > feedback about this branch before I merge it. I plan on leaving this > branch publicly available for one week for feedback. After I week, I'll > decide whether to merge it as-is, merge it with changes, or not merge it at > all, depending on the feedback received. If you have any feelings about > this one way or the other, please make them known. >
I haven't received much feedback on this, so I would still appreciate additional review/comments. Thanks, Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sequel-talk" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sequel-talk/-/i1MO677G7zgJ. To post to this group, send email to sequel-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sequel-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sequel-talk?hl=en.
