From: Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@...>
Date: 2010-06-08T10:59:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for ORM for 'legacy' database.

On 06/08/2010 07:05 AM, Dave Howell wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2010, at 7:03 , Edward Middleton wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> .. but I've been assuming that once I add a templating engine and web
> adapter, that they'll be much easier to use if I'm giving them
> Ruby objects that look like what ORMs make, rather than a big array
> or some such.

I think you might be underestimating the difficult/complexity of faking
a domain model and overestimating the advantage gained from the various
template helper functions, as always YMMV.

> I still haven't figured out what, exactly, a Domain Model will do for me,
> or even exactly what it is, but I'm not (deliberately? consciously?)
> trying to throw those advantages away. Thanks for the links.

Well it should make having an object model useful rather then a
distraction.

Edward