From: Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@...>
Date: 2010-06-06T23:03:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for ORM for 'legacy' database.

On 06/05/2010 09:40 AM, Dave Howell wrote:
> 
> On Jun 4, 2010, at 7:25 , Edward Middleton wrote:
> 
>> On 06/04/2010 06:29 PM, Dave Howell wrote:
>>> Thanks for reading to the end of a pretty long message, and thanks
>>> even more to those of you who help me figure out where to look for the
>>> answers. :)
>>
>> Get a copy of "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture"[1] read
>> and grok that first.  If you are just confirming your model to your
>> database you don't need objects.  They will just be a distraction ;)
> 
> Well, I'm going to need *something* to hand over to the templating engine in order to build web pages. 

I am in no way advocating you do it this way but if you are going to
throw away all the advantage of using a good domain model[1] then you
may as well just pass data to your templating engine.  Postgresql has a
driver ruby-pg[2], thats probably what you want.

Edward

1. http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/domainModel.html
2. http://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/wiki/Home