Question

Suppose I have a ruby hash :

person={:name=>:Alex,:age=>10}

I wish I could call an API like this:

db.save :people, person

which will execute the following SQL on mysql database:

insert  nto people (name,age) values ('Alex',10)

Is this possible by using rails or other ruby gems?

Answer 1

You can call ClassName.create!(your_hash), so in your scenario it would look like this:

Person.create!(person) # to create a record right away

or

person = Person.new(person) # to initialize the object first

person.save #  and then save it

No need to use any external gems, this is standard ActiveRecord, one of the Rails core libraries.