[Catalyst] ActiveRecord for Perl

[Eden Cardim]

On 5/22/07, mreece at vinq.com <mreece at vinq.com> wrote:
> one thing i really like about AR is the association proxies, where
> relationships themselves are objects you can call methods (ie, find) on
>
>   class User < ActiveRecord::Base
>     has_many :items
>   end
>   class Item < ActiveRecord::Base
>     belongs_to :user
>   end
>
>   items = user.items
>   item = user.items.find(params[:id])
>   new_item = user.items.create!(params[:item])
>
> you can get close to that with RDBO's $user->find_items() (and maybe DBIC
> has something similarish) but the ruby way here feels so much better!

"ruby way"? That's exactly how DBIC works.

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Eden Cardim
Instituto Baiano de Biotecnologia
Núcleo de Biologia Computacional e Gestão de Informações Biotecnológicas
Laboratório de Bioinformática