From: Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@...>
Date: 2007-06-21T23:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby MVC

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 23:04 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 
> Actually, I am on the Nitro mailing list (and I'm not on the Rails list)
> ;). But Og/Nitro appeal to me because the application I have in mind is
> starting from a bunch of compressed CSV files and building objects and a
> database from them. It's not a conventional business application, and my
> thinking is, or at least has been, ground up from the data to an MVC
> application, rather than top down from business requirements to an
> application.
> 
> So I am planning to start with a "bake-off" between Og and ActiveRecord
> and see where that leads me. Are there other Ruby ORM tools I should be
> looking at as well? The target database is PostgreSQL running on Linux
> (CentOS 5 and whatever web servers and databases it has).

I've used Og a good bit loading data from formatted flat files into
PostgreSQL; it works well.

If you're not already doing so, you might want to consider using the
darc's repository version.