What is gosexy?

gosexy is a general purpose framework for Go that provides sugar methods, types and abstractions.

Getting sexy

Before pulling the source

Make sure you have the git, hg (mercurial) and bzr (bazaar) source control systems installed on your system, those packages are available for many linux distros and also in homebrew for OSX. You'll also require sqlite3 and pkg-config. All those packages are required for building some third party dependencies.

Here's how you would install them all on OSX using brew

$ brew install git
$ brew install hg
$ brew install bzr
$ brew install sqlite3
$ brew install pkg-config

Or, let's suppose you want to bring them to ArchLinux

# sudo pacman -S mercurial bzr sqlite3 git pkg-config

Using gosexy in your Go program

First, get the source using go

$ go get github.com/xiam/gosexy

Then import gosexy into your actual source code

import . "github.com/xiam/gosexy"

Sugar wrappers

• gosexy/db - A wrapper of database/sql, mgo and friends for querying to MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite3 databases over a single, consistent interface.
• gosexy/yaml - A wrapper of goyaml for working with YAML formatted files.

Sugar types

• Tuple is a shortcut for map[string]interface{} (generic dictionaries).
• List is a shortcut for []interface{} (generic arrays).

License

gosexy and friends are all released under the terms of the MIT License.