I am making a tool in ruby which can interact with databases.
I am using amalgalite
as an adapter for sqlite3.
Code:
require 'amalgalite'
# this is class RQuery
class RQuery
def db_open(db_name)
@db = Amalgalite::Database.new "#{db_name}.db"
make_class
end
def exec_this(query)
@db.execute(query)
end
def make_class
tables_list = exec_this("select name from sqlite_master where type='table'")
tables_list.each do |table|
@class_created = Object.const_set(table[0].capitalize, Class.new)
@class_created.class_eval do
define_singleton_method :first do
RQuery.new.exec_this("select * from #{table[0]} order by #{table[0]}.id ASC limit 1")
end
end
end
end
def eval_this(input)
instance_eval(input)
end
def code
print '>>'
input = gets
exit if input =~ /^q$/
puts eval_this(input)
code
end
end
Now when I am running the code everything works fine until I call table_name.first
It gives output
vbhv@fsociety ~/git/R-Query/bin $ ruby main.rb
Enter the code or q for quit
>>db_open('vbhv')
users
persons
people
programmers
>>Users.first
/home/vbhv/git/R-Query/lib/r-query.rb:36:in `instance_eval': undefined method `execute' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
Did you mean? exec
from /home/vbhv/git/R-Query/lib/r-query.rb:29:in `block (3 levels) in make_class'
from (eval):1:in `eval_this'
from /home/vbhv/git/R-Query/lib/r-query.rb:36:in `instance_eval'
from /home/vbhv/git/R-Query/lib/r-query.rb:36:in `eval_this'
from /home/vbhv/git/R-Query/lib/r-query.rb:43:in `code'
from /home/vbhv/git/R-Query/lib/r-query.rb:44:in `code'
from /home/vbhv/git/R-Query/lib/r-query.rb:44:in `code'
from main.rb:4:in `<main>'
Now the 'execute' function it is talking about is inside amalgalite
. What am I doing wrong here?? Thanks in Advance!
The problem in this was that the new class formed dynamically doesn't know about the connection variable '@db'. Hence the code solves the problem.
@class_created.instance_variable_set(:@database, @db)
A big thanks to Jagdeep Singh.