ActiveRecord Without Rails

A simple example of using ActiveRecord without Rails using ActiveRecord 4.1.8 and MySQL

includes RSpec-test-suite with Girl-Factory and Guard

Setup with »bundle install , bundle update» and configure config/database.yml as in Rails.

tasks you can do: rake --tasks (including)

• rake db:create
• rake db:migrate
• rake db:drop

You can run the thing to show that it'll connect

ruby no-rails

Output:

Count of Pages: 0

Lastly, you can IRB it to do stuff:

$ irb

>> require "./no-rails"
=> true
>> Page.new
=> #<Page id: nil, content: nil, published: false>
>> Page.create content: "the-content"
=> #<Page id: 1, content: "the-content", published: false>

Copyright

MIT