crystal-db

Common db api for crystal. You will need to a specific driver to access a database.

• sqlite
• mysql
• postgres

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  db:
    github: crystal-lang/crystal-db

Documentation

• Latest API
• Crystal book

Usage

Since this is an abstract db api, it's usage is through a concrete database driver.

require "db"
require "sqlite3"

DB.open "sqlite3:./file.db" do |db|
  # When using the pg driver, use $1, $2, etc. instead of ?
  db.exec "create table contacts (name text, age integer)"
  db.exec "insert into contacts values (?, ?)", "John Doe", 30

  args = [] of DB::Any
  args << "Sarah"
  args << 33
  db.exec "insert into contacts values (?, ?)", args

  puts "max age:"
  puts db.scalar "select max(age) from contacts" # => 33

  puts "contacts:"
  db.query "select name, age from contacts order by age desc" do |rs|
    puts "#{rs.column_name(0)} (#{rs.column_name(1)})"
    # => name (age)
    rs.each do
      puts "#{rs.read(String)} (#{rs.read(Int32)})"
      # => Sarah (33)
      # => John Doe (30)
    end
  end
end

Roadmap

Issues not yet addressed

• Support non prepared statements. #25
• Time data type. (implementation details depends on actual drivers)
• Data type extensibility. Allow each driver to extend the data types allowed.
• Transactions & nested transactions. #27
• Connection pool.
• Direct access to IO to avoid memory allocation for blobs.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal-db/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• bcardiff Brian J. Cardiff - creator, maintainer