db-backed is a Ruby library providing a convenient
mechanism for describing objects bound to a
backing database. This relieves the programmer
from much of the tedium associated with writing
programs with DB access. Instead of spending a lot
of time working on code that reads data from the
database, code that stuffs it into useable objects,
remembering whether a particular piece of data
lives in the database or not, etc., db-backed
allows the programmer to simply design their
database schema (with a few constraints), and
write a very simple class definition which describes
the mapping between database fields, class
methods, and foreign key mappings.
