ArchiveLib

ArchiveLib is an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) library for Ruby inspired by ActiveRecord.

Try it

1. Download/Clone this repo and naviagate to the ./ArchiveLib/demo directory.
2. Open pry/irb and run load 'demo.rb' in the terminal.
3. This will create the tables companies, employees, & computers.
4. Try intuitive belongs_to or has_many associations amongst the models. Try Company.first.employees or Computer.first.company.

Using ArchiveLib

With this app, you can create belongs_to, has_many or has_one_through associations between tables.

Methods for interaction with database.

Here is a list of methods available for interacting with the database.

Base

• ::all : Returns array of all entries for given table.

  Example: Employee.all

• ::first: Returns first entry from a table.

  Example: Employee.first

• ::last : Returns last entry from the table.

  Example: Employee.last

• ::find(id) : Returns an entry for a given id from a table.

  Example: Employee.find(1)

• ::new : Creates a new entry for a table.

• #save : Creates or updates an entry for a table.

  Example:

  employee = Employee.new
  employee.fname = "John"
  employee.lname = "Doe"
  employee.company_id = 2
  employee.save
  

• #update : Updates an existing entry for a table.

  Example: Employee.update(1, fname: "Musa", lname: "Raza", company_id: 3)

• #insert : Inserts a new entry into the table.

Searchable

• ::where : Returns an array of all the items that match the where clause in the query.

  Example: Employee.where(name: "Anthony")

Associatable

• ::has_many: Returns an array of all the child associations.

  Example: Company.first.employees

• ::belongs_to: Returns an entry which has the parent association.

  Example: Employee.last.company

• ::has_one_through: Specifies a one to one relationship between two models, traversing through an intermediary model.

  Example: Computer.first.company