36 comments
nurettin · 5 days ago
To me, the best part about sequel is that it works with jruby. I use it as a secret weapon when I need a db automation that runs practically anywhere thanks to JVM (and thanks to Jeremy).

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neallindsay · 5 days ago
This is what I reach for whenever I'm not using ActiveRecord in Ruby. Excellent library—difficult to talk about over audio.

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mhd · 5 days ago
I used this a lot when I wasn't doing any other Ruby at the time, to do some more involved SQL automatization and ETL. I tried to stick with SQL/psql as much as possible, but if that fails or would've lead too much into temporary tables and pl/sql, I went with Sequel. I could fiddle around it in an interactive REPL if I wanted to, and the resulting code wasn't too OO so that the underlying Postgres representation was barely visible.

Some day I might try my hand at a "full Jeremy Evans" stack backend, i.e. both Sequel and his web framework Roda, authentication with Rodauth etc.

shayonj · 5 days ago
I really like Sequel and use it as well in non rails apps. Its powering pg-osc and pg_easy_replicate for me. Thanks for the project!
cooljacob204 · 5 days ago
This is probably my favorite gem of all time. I strongly prefer it to active record. Especially when I have to do any sort of complex query.