Main Features of ARE

ARE supports four main features at this point:

• Better finder support for ActiveRecord, Intro here

• Mass import/insertion of data, which is up to 40x faster then ActiveRecord, Intro here

• A benchmarking suite to benchmark itself against ActiveRecord, See MySQL results

• Rake tasks to test itself, and to test itself against ActiveRecord’s own test suite, [ See README in source tgz ] ARE is 100% compliant with ActiveRecord 1.1.0 up to 1.1.6 and even into RailsEdge up until tonight.

  ARE’s import method is the way to go if you need to access MySQL functionality like:

• INSERT IGNORE

• INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE</ul>

• Multi-value INSERT statements ARE’s better_finder support is the way to go if you want a more robust and cleaner API for searching the database. It supports things like:

• Hashes

• Arrays

• Numerics

• Regexps</ul>

• Ranges It gives awesome search functionality via passing in a Hash. Check it out