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Why I wrote Arel by Nick Kallen

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I'm more interested in the passing mention of FlockDB, which sounds cool. That'll (hopefully) save me from having to write my own distributed graph database.

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Wow. I'd like to know more about it too.

The way that such chaining is possible is that each "query" (e.g., Users.order(...)) returns not an array of data, but a query object that one can manipulate still further.

That sounds just like the IQueryable<T> interface used in .Net's LINQ.

All I could think of while reading the article was Monads

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