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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:20:41 +0100
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Subject: Re: Stuffing: a Ruby on Rails plugin to add CouchDB to existing
	ActiveRecord models
From: Andrea Schiavini <a.schiavini@sourcesense.com>
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Paul, does this handle the problem of conflicts in CouchDB - which may
result in an inconsistency between the MySQL database and its CouchDB
"mirror"?

Congratulations for your work ;)

Andrea Schiavini

2009/2/9 Paul Campbell <paul@rushedsunlight.com>

> Chris,
>
> Totally. My hope is that anyone who's not had the time to fully
> investigate CouchDB will be able to just stick this in an ActiveRecord
> and have access to their CouchDB document as an accessor on an
> ActiveRecord model. Much less to get the head around than starting
> from scratch.
>
> The other neat thing about this is that it *just works* with
> ActiveRecord validations, at least with the first layer of hash keys.
> So the barrier to entry is pretty much install the plugin and call the
> method.
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Campbell
> paul@rushedsunlight.com
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>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Chris Anderson <jchris@apache.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Paul Campbell <paul@rushedsunlight.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've been very quiet around these parts, but I've noticed that there
> >> are plenty of users on here that use Ruby/Rails. I've been working on
> >> some CMS stuff backed with CouchDB and decided to do some abstracting
> >> so that I could get my blog up and running off CouchDB. I thought you
> >> might be interested in this:
> >>
> >> http://www.pabcas.com/feeling/stuffing-couchdb-into-rails
> >>
> >> Basically, it's a plugin that lets you use CouchDB with existing (or
> >> new) ActiveRecord SQL models. You basically don't ever have to leave
> >> ActiveRecord or SQL, but you get a bonus attribute (your 'stuffing')
> >> that is a hash that persists to CouchDB.
> >>
> >
> > This is really cool. Back when we'd heard of Couch, but weren't yet
> > using it, we had a Rails plugin that serialized schemaless hashes to
> > JSON strings in Postgres. What you have sounds even better, what with
> > the actual Couch and all.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > --
> > Chris Anderson
> > http://jchris.mfdz.com
> >
>

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