I'd say that rather than spending time studying SQL::DB, which I found complicated and hard to tackle, you might as well invest the same time and energy anyway in figuring out DBIx::Class.
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 14:35 +0100, Lyle wrote: > Personally I think DBIx::Class is the biggest load of crock out there. > It's much slower, awkward to use, time consuming to learn, and as soon > as you try to do some complicated queries you'll end up dropping it > anyway. ORMs simply cannot work in the long run:- > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/06/object-relational-mapping-is-the-vietnam-of-computer-science.html > > I found SQL::DB recently, which looks interesting to me, but haven't had > chance to work with it yet. It might be what you are looking for. > > > Lyle > > John Karr wrote: > > I'm still learning Catalyst and find that I don't like DBIx. As a counter > > example I love Template Toolkit, for exactly the same reason I hate DBIx. > > With TT html is in html, while DBIx seperates the database from SQL, if I > > were capable of writing an ORM (which I am not) it would be much more like > > Template Toolkit. Also I'm primarily a sysadmin working on some volunteer > > programming projects while out of work, so even though it might well be > > worth coming to terms with DBIx if I did more development, crawling through > > DBI seems a more efficient way for me to get working code written. > > > > The alternatives I've been able to discover are DBI and RoseDB. Is there any > > case (given why I've already stated I dislike DBIx) for RoseDB, and are > > there any other alternatives that work well with Catalyst that I have not > > found? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List: [email protected] > > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ -- Kiffin Gish <[email protected]> Gouda, The Netherlands _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
