Non-production Ruby implementation of the Active Record Pattern, inspired by Gregory Brown's Broken Record project.

A contemporaneous journal of the development of Peel can be found under /dev_journal

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'peel'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install peel

Configure Peel to use an existing SQLite databse file, by calling Peel.configure() and passing in a block:

# config.rb
require 'peel'
Peel.configure do |config|
  config.database_file = "books_app"
end

Include Peel::Modelable in your class and call peel_off, passing in the table name as a symbol or string:

# book.rb
require 'config'
class Book
  include Peel::Modelable
  peel_off(:books)
end

Call .find() on your model. A new instance will be returned with getters/setters based on the row set:

book = Book.find(1)
#=> #<Book:0x007f803ea9e938 @author="Metz, Sandi", @id=1, @isbn="0311237841549", @title="Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby">

book.title
#=> "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby"

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/thomascountz/peel. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Peel project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.