The db configuration isn't reasonable at the moment. You can run
clj_record/test/main.clj as a script but not load it from the REPL.
Let me see if I can get it to work both ways and push an update.

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Brian Doyle <brianpdo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having used Rails myself I wanted to check this out and play with it.   I'm
> having some
> trouble just loading the clj_record/core.clj file though:
>
> 1:1 user=> (load-file "clj_record/core.clj")
> java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: db in this context
> (core.clj:19)
>
> I'm sure it's something I'm doing wrong but I do have derby.jar on my
> classpath.  Thanks.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 1:48 PM, John D. Hume <duelin.mark...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> As a learning exercise, I've started working on a sort of clojure
>> clone of ActiveRecord (from Rails). You can see it here:
>> http://github.com/duelinmarkers/clj-record/tree/master
>>
>> The model used in the tests is defined in files here:
>>
>> http://github.com/duelinmarkers/clj-record/tree/master/clj_record/test/model
>>
>> And the tests most worth reading are:
>>
>> http://github.com/duelinmarkers/clj-record/tree/master/clj_record/test/core-test.clj
>>
>> http://github.com/duelinmarkers/clj-record/tree/master/clj_record/test/associations-test.clj
>>
>> I'd be interested in any feedback about issues you see, idioms I could
>> be using that I'm not, suggestions on testing approach, or other
>> comments or questions.
>>
>> One style question I'm particularly interested in is what people think
>> the model setup should look like. Currently I've got it implemented to
>> allow a minimum of punctuation:
>>
>> (cljrec/init-model
>>  (has-many products))
>>
>> But is it bad form to use the fact that macros don't evaluate
>> arguments to allow all those naked symbols? For consistency with ns it
>> seems it would be preferable to make has-many a keyword:
>>
>> (cljrec/init-model
>>  (:has-many products))
>>
>> (There actually is a has-many method that gets invoked by init-model,
>> but that's an implementation detail.)
>>
>> My gut says the least confusing approach for a user would be this.
>>
>> (cljrec/init-model
>>  (:has-many :products))
>>
>> ... but something seems weird to me about both :has-many and :products
>> being keywords, where :has-many is a magic keyword and :products is a
>> name being introduced. (Note it doesn't define a var called 'products
>> but does create 'find-products and 'destroy-products functions.)
>>
>> Note that I'm using clojure.contrib.sql and not worrying about the
>> constantly opening and closing connections. Obviously I'd need some
>> way of wrapping a single db transaction around a bunch of expressions
>> to make this a generally useful library. But that's not the point
>> right now.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> -hume.
>> --
>> http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>



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