Author Archives: thynctank

Future Plans

We get a fair number of visits, I think. For a rarely-maintained, grassrootsy, non-commercial site. Not a lot. We had under 400 visits the last month, according to Google Analytics, though most visits last over 2 minutes, and at least half our visitors are repeat visitors.
I have to assume folks are making use of JazzRecord [...]

ID Optional in latest JazzRecord 0.7

As of version 0.07 build 1236659271 (please find on Github), the ID column is now optional once more when using automigrations or in declaring columns on models. In actuality, allcolumns are optional in model declarations, if manual migrations are used. This is somewhat similar to the Hobo project’s automatically-generated migrations, only in reverse. (model fields are determined by migrations rather [...]

New Features in JazzRecord 0.7: Migrations and isNew()

First off, thanks to Khou Suylong of Mango Team for once again providing me with a bug find which led to a fix!
We’ve been busy once more, putting together JazzRecord 0.7, which incorporates manual migrations with all of the major features from Rails’ ActiveRecord migrations. While there are no official updated docs yet, here’s a brief list of changes:
ID must now [...]

JazzRecord: You Have The Power!

Since I recently held a conversation over IRC about some of how JazzRecord’s association loading and saving works, I thought I’d share it with the world as well.
The coolest two things about JazzRecord, and likewise Rails’ ActiveRecord:
* the fact they automatically load associated records as objects, based on models’ knowledge of interrelations with other models, [...]