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| author | Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> | 2014-02-18 14:45:40 -0800 |
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| committer | Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> | 2014-02-18 14:45:40 -0800 |
| commit | 5c415ec6c10ad71684ab6422a43d10d3d07ad07c (patch) | |
| tree | 042d43bde3a715fc8ebb0fe1e00cd790b0b25bd1 | |
| parent | 38321b114e87a2fc8560f7651890aa1b7c2c2362 (diff) | |
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fixed the readme per discussion w/ tenderlove
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diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index e2c60bd90e..99263dc2d2 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ ## DESCRIPTION +Arel Really Exasperates Logicians + Arel is a SQL AST manager for Ruby. It 1. Simplifies the generation of complex SQL queries @@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ query.to_sql ### More Sophisticated Queries -Here is a whirlwind tour through the most common relational operators. These will probably cover 80% of all interaction with the database. +Here is a whirlwind tour through the most common SQL operators. These will probably cover 80% of all interaction with the database. First is the 'restriction' operator, `where`: @@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ users.project(users[:name]).group(users[:name]) # => SELECT users.name FROM users GROUP BY users.name ``` -The best property of the Relational Algebra is its "composability", or closure under all operations. For example, to restrict AND project, just "chain" the method invocations: +The best property of arel is its "composability", or closure under all operations. For example, to restrict AND project, just "chain" the method invocations: ```ruby users \ |