From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-10-30T21:52:06+09:00
Subject: Re: The "perfect" ORM?

Hal Fulton wrote:
> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> The whole time I'm reading your posts though I keep thinking you just 
>> want:
>>
>>   File.open("objects", "w") do |file| Marshal.dump(whatever, file) end
>>
>> Or YAML.  Or PStore if you also want transactions.
>>
>> Can you explain how what you want differs from this?
>
> Not a dumb question at all. And I wouldn't dignify my ideas as a "vision"
> yet. If it works well, I'll retroactively dub it a vision.  ;)
>
> Basically the only thing missing from a YAML solution or something is
> the ability to do sophisticated queries without storing all the objects
> in memory at once.
>
> Given that I may have 100,000 objects or so, I don't want to store them
> all in a giant array, but I *do* want to be able to find them by the
> values of their accessors.

So Marshalled objects plus indexes?

Dave