Finally understood why it's the convention in NodeJS.
So following it now.

I assume this is more along the lines how things are done in NodeJS.

So the actual interfacing with node-mysql is contained within that
class.

The :jasmine task now populates comments_test with test data and
then runs the testsuite against it.

The script update_votes.sql calculates the values for that column based
on the entries in votes table.

This is an optimization to avoid aggregating the votes in a separate
table every time we retrieve comments.

Also updated examples.sql to use the new full_visible_comments view -
this greatly simplified all queries.

Include jasmine-node into our comments backend dependencies.

Write comments.spec.js to test all methods in Comments class.
For now we're using the actual full database - must replace with a test
database.

Add :jasmine task to Rakefile.

It also turned out that I can't have comments inside package.json.
So I need to remove those helpful comments from there... great.

Also add full_visible_comments view to simplify the queries.

Finally added a small test script to check if it's actually working.

Results in better error messages.

A strange 'unknown' target has NULL fields otherwise.

MySQL has restriction for index size, so make the fields shorter.
100 should be enough for class and member names.
50 should be enough for domain name.

We'll delete these targets later, but for now I want to be able to
insert them.

I though Date.parse() returns a date, but it returns milliseconds
instead.

Picked an easily recognizable date - if needed we can replace this date
later with NULL or whatever else seems suitable.

Add conversion to change JavaScript booleans into 0 and 1 for MySQL.

For each user retrieve e-mail and determine if he's a moderator.

Removed the email_hash field from users table - a premature
optimization, we can calculate it on the fly which should be fast enough
as it's a simple md5, and it's only needed for displaying comments.

Rename read_comments table to readings.

Extract readings info from mongo_metas.

Some users have subscribed without having commented or voted.  This
added additional complexities as subscription db in mongo lists users by
external_id unlike all other tables which list the username... oh crap.

Refactored things around considerably.  Mongo comments and subscriptions
are now loaded up front, so all following procedures can operate on
them.  Added lots of messy logic into UsersTable, building an additional
index by external_id and looking up usernames from Sencha Forum db by
external_id. Thankfully it's a throw-away script, as the resulting code
is quite fragile and messy.

Also found one user who had subscribed bot no more has an entry in
Sencha Forum database.  Going to throw away his 3 subscriptions.