On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Jeremy Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>

Keep in mind it's still summer holidays, so not many people might have
checked it yet.

I will test it tomorrow on jruby and H2 database.

-- 
Christian

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