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a modern, lightweight mysql ORM for ruby 1.9

Features

modern

• uses ARel for query generation
• uses MySQL2 eventmachine driver for asynchronous I/O
• supports partial updates and dirty tracking

lightweight

• zero-copy attribute loading
• small runtime footprint

non-blocking

• designed for use with Rack::FiberPool for transparent, non-blocking access to mysql without need for callbacks/CPS

Non-Features

• validations (you shouldn't be encoding your business logic in your persistence layer anyway)
• migrations - ActiveRecord::Migrations is a fantastic migration toolkit - use it!