Discussion on: Sequel: An Alternative to ActiveRecord

Hi Victoria! Really nice article, I've used Sequel a bit in the past in scripts and it's a neat tool.

I love how you figured out a lot of things on your own, because I would have just used the sequel-rails gem which provides the rake/rails commands you mentioned. That's where ActiveRecord and Rails cheat a bit. AR doesn't really provide those commands, it's Rails that has them builtin.

One last thing, if you add ruby at the end of the triple ticks you can have syntax highlighting:

class Dog < Sequel::Model
  many_to_one :person

  def validate
    super
    errors.add(:name, "must be present") if name.empty?
    errors.add(:breed, "must be present") if breed.empty?
  end
end