We’ve been consistently updating ActiveRecord for our consulting and internal projects. We find ActiveRecord to be a wonderfully way to get the Xojo IDE to do more work for you. It reduces table/field name errors and gives you some nice autocomplete features in the Xojo Code Editor. In addition to all that you never have an issue with silent data type conversion errors. It has saved us hundreds of hours of development time in the past couple of years. Another huge bonus for us in team development is having it flag the developer (runtime exception) when a new field is added but it’s not in the class yet (at runtime it’s silent).
Today, we released an update to the general ActiveRecord release and is available through the ActiveRecord page at http://www.bkeeney.com/rbinto/activerecord/
New in this release:
- Support for CubeSQL Server
- Provisional support (meaning don’t call us if it doesn’t work) for Oracle DB servers
- Fixed a number of issues with MySQL, and PostgreSQL
- Added SQLiteDatabase for Xojo users migrating away from REALSQLDatabase
- Added more comments for errors when there are missing plugins (now very likely with CubeSQL support).
We also updated ARGen, our utility to generate the classes required to use ActiveRecord in your Xojo applications. This $19.95 utility is a tool that makes creating the ActiveRecord classes a breeze. Point it to the database you want, select the tables, hit the create button and it generates the Xojo classes required to use the database with your ActiveRecord application.
While it’s not very hard to create your own classes but this utility is a huge time saver. For a test I took one of our big databases (about 350 tables with varying number of fields in each) and ran it through ARGen. In 20 seconds it generated all of the data classes for the database and all I had to do was open the resulting XML in Xojo and drag the data classes into a project.
More information on ARGen at http://www.bkeeney.com/allproducts/argen/
New in this release:
- Support for CubeSQL Server
- Provisional support (meaning don’t call us if it doesn’t work) for Oracle db servers
- Added SQLiteDatabase for Xojo users migrating away from REALSQLDatabase
- Added the ability to add suffixes to your field names (in addition to the prefix)
