From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-10-28T08:21:02+09:00
Subject: Re: The "perfect" ORM?

Jeremy Kemper wrote:
> 
> This is very different from composing a domain model, coding it up,  
> then devising a mapper to persist your object graph.  As far as I  know 
> there are no Ruby ORM that attempt this.

If I understand you right, that is the way I want to do it.

> Having done it both ways, I prefer those little hints.  The apparent  
> cost of a generic domain mapper is deceptively low due to the "it  seems 
> nice" discount, but its true cost is far higher: high  conceptual 
> overhead, difficult mapping bugs, and carpal tunnel.

Well, I guess I will work on it and see where it goes. Maybe it will
prove impractical. Maybe no one will like it but me. We'll see.


Thanks,
Hal