> Karl Guertin wrote: > > On 11/9/06, Tim Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any chance that this "end result" will include something like Rails' > > > "Acts"? > > > > Got an explanation for this? My google-fu is lacking. > > I'm guessing it is a reference to the various "acts_as_*" plugins that > make it relatively easy to add row metadata (tags, voting, commenting, > etc) to your model. >
I took a look at Agile Rails book. Besides the relationship between tables(OneToMany, ManyToMany...etc), "acts_as_*" are the metadata(such as tablename is the metadata for sql table, but acts_as_* are the metadata for model) for ActiveRecord (rails ORM), which add an predefined set of methods to manipulate the model. For example, add a line to specify "acts_as_list" in model's metadata could put results in order and act as a list; "acts_as_tree" add some methods to play model like the tree structure. SQLAlchemy/TurboEntity didn't have such stuff currently, but its not a hard thing to warp a method to access SQLAlchemy/TurboEntity model in native python code. -- Fred --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
