June 3, 2009

Machinist 1.0, now with DataMapper support

Machinist 1.0 is now available on GitHub!

The major feature is DataMapper support. Big thanks to Daniel Neighman for his help with this.

Update: I wrote up a simple example of how Machinist intelligently handles associations in DataMapper and ActiveRecord.

You can also now blueprint plain old Ruby objects.

It’s easy to add support for other ORM layers. If you’re keen, take a look at lib/machinist/active_record.rb for a comprehensive example of how it’s done.

Upgrading

If you've installed it as a gem:

sudo gem update notahat-machinist

If you’re using it as a Rails plugin:

./script/plugin install --force git://github.com/notahat/machinist.git

Important: You now have to require Machinist and Sham in your blueprints.rb:

require 'machinist/active_record'
require 'sham'

Substitute in data_mapper if that’s your weapon of choice.