Hey guys, Over the past few days I've started experimenting with the idea of implementing the repository pattern on top of ActiveRecord (yes, it sounds scary). The motivation came after we were about to kick start a relatively large scale system. It would be great to retain the powerfulness of ActiveRecord as well as making our app easier to maintain and test. It is basically a compromise, a stop gap, if you will.
I've always liked Datamapper, and Datamapper 2 is shaping up nicely but looks like it is still a far way away. So I decided to base my experimentation on top of utilising both ActiveRecord and Virtus, the attributes component of Datamapper 2. Eventually I want to add support for using multiple data providers (ActiveRecord, Sequel and Datamapper 2, etc) per repository for the same entity, among other things. You can check out what I've been doing here: https://github.com/fredwu/datamappify It is an experiment, and it's still too early to see how useful and practical it'll become, but I'd love to get some feedback from you guys! Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datamapper+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to datamapper@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
