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Ruby on Rails Versus Chicago Boss

rrouse edited this page Nov 7, 2011 · 1 revision

Ruby on Rails Versus Chicago Boss

The Chicago Boss API was largely inspired by Rails. The following tables should give you a feel for some of the similarities and differences.

Model

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Person.new(:name => "Joe", :age => 4)
person:new(id, "Joe", 4)
@person.save
Person:save()
@person.valid?
Person:validate()
@person.last_name
Person:last_name()
@person.attribute_names
Person:attribute_names()
@person.attributes
Person:attributes()

Associations

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belongs_to :manager
-belongs_to(manager).
has_one :partner
-has({partner, 1}).
has_many :pets
-has({pets, many}).
has_many :pets, :foreign_key => "animal_id"
-has({pets, many, [{foreign_key, animal_id}]}).
has_many :pets, :class_name => "Animal"
-has({pets, many, [{module, animal}]}).
has_many :pets, :order => "name ASC"
-has({pets, many, [{sort_by, name}, 
  {sort_order, str_ascending}]}).

Database

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Person.find(:all)
boss_db:find(person, [])
Person.find(42)
boss_db:find("person-42")
Person.where("admin = 1")
boss_db:find(person, [admin = 1])
Person.offset(100).limit(10).all
boss_db:find(person, [], 100, 10)

View

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<%= @person.name %>
{{ person.name }}
<% if @person %>
  <%= @person.name %>
<% end %>
{% if person %}
  {{ person.name }}
{% endif %}
<% for person in @people %>
-<%= person.name %>
<% end %>
{% for person in people %}
-{{ person.name }}
{% endfor %}
<%= render "shared/header", 
  { :title=> "foo", :user => @person  } %>
{% header title="foo" user=person %}

Controller

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def edit
  case request.request_method
  when "GET"
    ...
  when "POST"
    ...
  end
end
edit('GET', []) ->
  ...;
edit('POST', []) ->
  ....
redirect_to :action => 'show', :id => @entry.id
{redirect, "/show/"++Entry:id()}
render :action => "elsewhere"
{render_other, "/elsewhere"}
render :text => "Hello"
{output, "Hello"}
render :json => { :user => @user }
{json, [{user, User}]}
before_filter :require_login, :except => [:show]
before_("show") -> ok;
before_(_) -> require_login().
after_filter :cache, :except => [:login]
after_("login", Res) -> Res;
after_(_, Res) -> cache(Res).