Ruby on Rails Versus Chicago Boss

Ruby on Rails Versus Chicago Boss

The Chicago Boss API was largely inspired by Rails. The following tables should give you a feel for some of the similarities and differences.

Model

RUBY ON RAILS	CHICAGO BOSS
Person.new(:name => "Joe", :age => 4)	person:new(id, "Joe", 4)
@person.save	Person:save()
@person.valid?	Person:validate()
@person.last_name	Person:last_name()
@person.attribute_names	Person:attribute_names()
@person.attributes	Person:attributes()

Associations

RUBY ON RAILS	CHICAGO BOSS
belongs_to :manager	-belongs_to(manager).
has_one :partner	-has({partner, 1}).
has_many :pets	-has({pets, many}).
has_many :pets, :foreign_key => "animal_id"	-has({pets, many, [{foreign_key, animal_id}]}).
has_many :pets, :class_name => "Animal"	-has({pets, many, [{module, animal}]}).
has_many :pets, :order => "name ASC"	-has({pets, many, [{sort_by, name}, {sort_order, str_ascending}]}).

Database

RUBY ON RAILS	CHICAGO BOSS
Person.find(:all)	boss_db:find(person, [])
Person.find(42)	boss_db:find("person-42")
Person.where("admin = 1")	boss_db:find(person, [admin = 1])
Person.offset(100).limit(10).all	boss_db:find(person, [], 100, 10)

View

RUBY ON RAILS	CHICAGO BOSS
<%= @person.name %>	{{ person.name }}
<% if @person %> <%= @person.name %> <% end %>	{% if person %} {{ person.name }} {% endif %}
<% for person in @people %> -<%= person.name %> <% end %>	{% for person in people %} -{{ person.name }} {% endfor %}
<%= render "shared/header", { :title=> "foo", :user => @person } %>	{% header title="foo" user=person %}

Controller

RUBY ON RAILS	CHICAGO BOSS
def edit case request.request_method when "GET" ... when "POST" ... end end	edit('GET', []) -> ...; edit('POST', []) -> ....
redirect_to :action => 'show', :id => @entry.id	{redirect, "/show/"++Entry:id()}
render :action => "elsewhere"	{render_other, "/elsewhere"}
render :text => "Hello"	{output, "Hello"}
render :json => { :user => @user }	{json, [{user, User}]}
before_filter :require_login, :except => [:show]	before_("show") -> ok; before_(_) -> require_login().
after_filter :cache, :except => [:login]	after_("login", Res) -> Res; after_(_, Res) -> cache(Res).