iaindooley/PluSQL
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A non-ActiveRecord based ORM for SQL lovers
11 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2011-07-27 · latest 2026-07-04
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…ActiveRecord. I created this library 14(!) years ago not too long before this article was written https://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL The idea is that you like SQL, but it gets repetitive writing joins and accessor code. I had always…
comment by dools · 2026-07-04 · in What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) -
…tree in memory and only want to create classes to represent a database entity when I need one: https://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL
comment by dools · 2023-06-28 · in Is ORM still an anti-pattern? -
I feel exactly the same way about ActiveRecord ORMs. That’s why I created PluSQL: https://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL
comment by dools · 2023-06-17 · in I don't need your query language -
…I would long for an easy way to use SQL and have it "just work" for objects, so I created this: https://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL It's obviously not been maintained but I think it's a model that has legs: that is, simply the creation of…
comment by dools · 2022-02-11 · in Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020) -
I came to the same conclusion, and wrote this ORM for SQL lovers: https://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL
comment by dools · 2016-06-27 · in What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) -
…an object (for example, looping over a list of Authors and their Books) To that end, I wrote this: https://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL It's written in PHP because I like and use PHP but it's a very simple pattern that I would like to see…
comment by dools · 2012-07-13 · in Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1 -
…the most tedious parts of writing SQL but requires no boilerplate classes and is light and speedy https://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL (but it currently only supports MySql because it requires buffered query sets)
comment by dools · 2012-02-24 · in Performance cost of Ruby ORM model instantiation -
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PluSQL: now at v0.1 with improved READMEstory by dools · 2012-01-12 · 0 comments
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…Oh and it's fast as hell and uses very little memory. I call it PluSQL: the ORM for SQL lovers: http://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL/
comment by dools · 2011-09-17 · in ORM is an anti-pattern -
…figuring out how to improve the way we use existing inventions, as opposed to real inventions? [1] https://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL/
comment by dools · 2011-07-29 · in Are Software Patents Evil? (2006) -
…that there are at least a few people that will care. I'm also building an ORM for SQL lovers at https://github.com/iaindooley/PluSQL/ - I just find that if I don't do something with tangible (or "releasable") results every week then I get…
comment by dools · 2011-07-27 · in Show HN: My 10 minute non-project: Get a weekly digest of emails from any source