From: Dave Howell <groups.2009a@...>
Date: 2010-06-08T11:15:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for ORM for 'legacy' database.


On Jun 7, 2010, at 18:59 , Edward Middleton wrote:
> 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.

That's quite possible. Er, 'faking' a domain model? I'm not even sure what that means. {off to Wikipedia...}

Ah. I don't think I'm trying to 'fake' that. I am putting in tremendous effort to ensure that the data and relationships in my database are as accurate and complete a model of how the information flows between the various departments and members of the corporation for whom I'm working, as possible. I certainly hope to have the Ruby components reflect that as well. 

On the other hand, I cannot imagine that I could possibly *over*estimate the advantages that a modern templating engine can give me. My baseline is Tango 3, which dates from 1996. Before that, I build a whole website with .idc/.htx file pairs in IIS, which was before Microsoft had invented Active Server Pages. 

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/EveryWare+Releases+the+Windows+beta+version+of+Tango%3B+EveryWare...-a018391130

God help us all if Haml, et al, can't do any better than that.