Comments on: I’ve got some ActiveRecord in my Shoes

By: madprog

madprog — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:17:31 +0000

Very nice, thank you !

By: Unixmonkey

Unixmonkey — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:19:46 +0000

@madprog

This should do the trick.

unless ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables.include?('table_name')
  ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
    # define table
  end
end

By: madprog

madprog — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:52:21 +0000

Hello,

First thank you for your post, I now know how to detect when a sqlite3 database was already created.
But would you know how to detect if a mysql database was already initialized by a ActiveRecord::Schema.define ?

I’m totally new to ruby and rails (I have just begun last night ^^), so excuse me if it is trivial…

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:04:52 +0000

update: I got it running, but it gets stuck while trying to install the gem and eventually fails saying it could not find the gem, here’s the code: http://gist.github.com/90905

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:55:19 +0000

@Hamza Could you post a gist? Trying to get it running on Leopard, not sure where you put the establish_connection part

By: Hamza Khan-Cheema

Hamza Khan-Cheema — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:47:24 +0000

Thanks for this post it has been really helpful.

Just a note though, it took me some time to get this working on Mac OS X (Tiger) with the latest version of Shoes. It was complaining about not being able to find active_record. Even though I had it installed.

It turns out that it did not like requiring active_record in the setup block. So I just changed the setup block so it had

gem ‘activerecord’

I then put both require statements beneath the setup block. After that I moved the database setup stuff into the ShoesApp class at the top and all was working.

Hamza.

By: Unixmonkey

Unixmonkey — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:58:27 +0000

@Fernando
Likely you don’t already have the sqlite gem installed. In the Shoes.setup block add a line that says “gem ’sqlite3-ruby’”. That should do it. I overlooked that dependency because I already had Rails and its dependencies installed.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:11:10 +0000

I have tried to run this an I get a “no driver for sqlite3 found” error.
I googled a bit and ended back here, so seem you are THE authority in the matter.
Can you give me some clue?
Is this common, or is it an issue of my installation?
Thank you in advance

By: Nick Quaranto

Nick Quaranto — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:06:10 +0000

Definitely impressed. Glad to see some Shoes action going on, keep it up!

By: mileszs

mileszs — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:01:40 +0000

Nice guide, man. Thanks!

PS – I submitted it to RubyFlow. I hope you don’t mind.