sqlboiler

Generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema.

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Generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema.

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2StepsOutOfLine·Nov 26, 2021

I'm shocked more people arent talking about SQLBoiler in threads like these. It solves this exact problemset. You write the SQL schema and it generates all the scan and helper functions for you. We've had a great experience with it at work after running into similar woes as OP with ORM's. https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler

In Our journey in dropping the ORM in Go

cedricvanrompay·Sep 9, 2021

I was expecting the article to contain a note about SQLBoiler (https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler) and why they didn't use it, but it doesn't. So I was expecting SQLBoiler to be heavily mentioned in the comments, but it's not the case. If you want to see a (slightly heated) debate about `sqlc` versus SQLBoiler with their respective creators: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/e9bvrt/sqlc_compile... Note that SQLBoiler does not seem to be compatible with `pgx`. [edit: grammar]

In How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres and Go

paraph1n·Sep 9, 2021

It seems you forgot sqlboiler [1] which is something like "write SQL schema, parse SQL schema, generate Go structs and functions to build queries using SQL primitives". Not quite like generating activerecords, I think. [1]: https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler

In How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres and Go

MrFlynn·Jan 14, 2021

GORM is nice for beginners because it's pretty easy to get started with, but in my experience starts to fall apart when you need to do anything more complex or start to scale up. I've had good experiences with SQLBoiler [0] on the other hand. I haven't used it in for anything in production, but it's been a breeze to use in a couple of personal projects, and it handles complex SQL queries much better compared to GORM. 0: https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler

In An Unlikely Database Migration