Gouda is an experimental ORM for Go.

• Backend agnostic (though at the moment it knows only how to connect to MySQL and XML files ...)
• Nice syntax for querying (ex : MyModel.Where(gouda.F("i").Eq("j")).Where(gouda.F("a").Eq("b")).Order("c","ASC").First())
• Not so intrusive...
• Pure Go

You first need Thoj Mysql Client Library

$ git clone git://github.com/zetaben/gouda.git
$ cd gouda
$ make
$ make install

1. Declare your structs as ModelInterface (by implementing all the interface methods or by embeding gouda.NullModel)
2. Connect to your database backend (eg : gouda.OpenMysql("mysql://root:@localhost:3306/test_db"))
3. Optional : Register your models using gouda.GetModelStore().RegisterModel(m)
4. Use it !

Peruse through Model_test.go to view typical usages A sample application application can be found in misc directory

At the moment Gouda as the following limitations :

• Connects only to mysql and XML files
• limited support for associations (railslike HasMany, BelongsTo)
• Knows only how to handle int and string attributes !
• Connections needs to be registered in the store to be usable automatically...
• Needs way more documentation !

This work is using work or ideas from other go projects :

• Thomas Jager's Mysql Client Library
• Josh Goebel's godatamapper for sqlite3
• Michael Stephens' gomongo ideas to provide a common Value interface