From: Duane Johnson <duane.johnson@...>
Date: 2005-10-26T12:18:11+09:00
Subject: Re: The "perfect" ORM?

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I've been looking in to the various options available to us Ruby  
developers as well.  A coworker (Troy Heninger) and I are looking at  
implementing a "knowledge base" or ODBMS, but I haven't worked out  
the details yet.  Troy is much more knowledgeable in this area.

If you're interested, the 3 interesting packages I've found so far are:

Purple - http://purple.rubyforge.org/
DyBase - http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/dybase.html
Madeleine - http://madeleine.sourceforge.net/

Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)

On Oct 25, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Hal Fulton wrote:

> For many weeks I have had this at the back of my mind.
>
> I want a really good ORM that is highly non-intrusive
> (e.g., I don't have to inherit and I don't have to
> clutter my classes and objects with metadata).
>
> Someone told me that this was much the way Hibernate
> works in Java. I can't comment.
>
> So anyway, this is one of my highest priorities -- to
> make an ORM (that works the way I like) to wrap
> KirbyBase. (With additional code, it should/could wrap
> any other db, of course.)
>
> Logan's KirbyRecord was a step in the right direction,
> it seemed to me. But it was like ActiveRecord -- it
> forced you to store your metadata in your own objects.
>
> Og is cool, but is even more intrusive.
>
> In case anyone is morbidly curious, I want this so that
> I can continue work on Tycho without getting bogged
> down in data storage issues. (Someone teased me at the
> conference that a year had gone by, and Tycho still
> hadn't progressed any. And he wonders how that spider
> got in his salad.)
>
> Anyhow: Who knows Hibernate and can comment on its
> usefulness as a model?
>
> And who if anyone is interested in working on this
> project?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Hal
>
>
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