ShadyDB

ShadyDB is a document persistence layer that speaks ActiveModel. Like it's name says it is shady and is merely impersonating a database. Its saves records/documents to the file system as XML or JSON files.

In general you should use a traditional database for 99.999% of cases. Real databases handle this type of thing way better. If you think ShadyDB is really the way to go, think again because you're probably mistaken. ShadyDB is just a ActiveRecord like wrapper for the file system and lacks traditional data integrity schemes.

ShadyDB is built on top of ActiveModel and as a result is a great learning tool for understanding the modularity and power that ActiveModel brings. I highly encourage anyone to spend the time to write their own ORM.

class User < ShadyDB::Document
end

u = User.new(:name => 'Marshall Mathers')
u.new_record? # true
u.save # true
u.new_record? # false

u.name # 'Marshall Mathers'
u[:name] # 'Marshall Mathers'

u = User.create(:name => 'Eminem')
u.new_record? # false

ShadyDB.configure do |config|
  config.data_directory = Rails.root.join('db','shadydb')
  config.format         = :xml
end

• Add an optional encryption layer
• Add support for collection finders
• Add support for conditional finders
• Add simple indexing

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright (c) 2010 Jared Pace. See LICENSE for details.