[colug-432] Ruby ActiveRecord joined tables

[Rick Hornsby]

> On Aug 13, 2015, at 08:05, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:
> 
> I wonder if Sequel would be a better fit, since it's designed for use
> outside Rails, though it may have some of the same naming issues as
> ActiveRecord.  http://twin.github.io/ode-to-sequel/

Quick followup - was working on a related IRC bot plugin, and need to periodically call the same mySQL database for a simple select.  Once you get past that things don't have to be complicated in sequel, it's pretty easy to use - and reduces the amount of code required quite a bit.  Instead of a bunch of prepare, execute, bind, etc type stuff -

	ds = @db[:SONGLIST].where('artist LIKE ? and title LIKE ?', artist, title)
	if ds.count == 1
  		result = ds.first
  		return result
	end

This does a SELECT * which gets more than I need, but the simplicity outweighs the need to be more field specific in this case.


thanks for the tip!