Rquerypad, release 0.1.0 (Mar. 2008)
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Simplify query options with association automation and improve inner join for activerecord of rails

Feature
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1. single name string decribe associations
2. support to mix inner join and outer join with any order
3. auto remove duplicated joins from other association in different depth
4. support :conditions, :order, :group
5. auto merge to original :include, :joins

Install
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ruby script/plugin install http://rquerypad.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/rquerypad

Example
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suppose the asscociations of User <-> Thread <-> Reply is 1:N:N

@users = User.find(:all, :group => ["threads.created_at", "name"])
generate:
[:all, {:group=>"threads.created_at, users.name", :include=>[:threads]}]

@users = User.find(:all, :conditions => ["threads_.replies.title = ?", "rquerypad"])
generate:
[:all, {:inner_joins=>["threads"], :conditions=>["replies.title = ?", "rquerypad"], :include=>[{:threads=>:replies}]}]
#note: the :inner_joints is processed by rquerypad before sending sql to database

@users = User.find(:all, :conditions => ["threads.replies.title = ? and threads.id = ?", "rquerypad", 1])
generate:
[:all, {:conditions=>["replies.title = ? and threads.id = ?", "rquerypad", 1], :include=>[{:threads=>:replies}]}]
#note: single "threads" was removed from includes

Usage
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put the following code in you initializer

#if you want to print log, use Rquerypad.prepare_with_debug
Rquerypad.prepare


Test
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1.Prepare

the test depends on sqlite3 database, the following code should be add into your database.yml and place rquerypad.rb(copy from test.rb) in config/environment

rquerypad:
adapter: sqlite3
database: vendor/plugins/rquerypad/test/db.rquerypad
timeout: 5000

2.database migrate

execute the following script

rake migrate

3.start test

execute the following script
rake


Copyright (c) 2008 Leon Li, released under the MIT license