For the record, Dan Kubb's post is:
http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper/browse_thread/thread/10db7e331213aa9e/ade75b6fd1032038

On Sep 15, 6:02 pm, Daniel Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ted,
>
> Thanks for the kind responses and the acknowledgment of Datamapper
> shortcomings. The final answer was not without problems, however:
>
> 1. Like queries on the output of find_by_sql are not upcased
> automatically, which means they are case sensitive
> 2. DM-Pager doesn't really work on raw queries that return less than
> the full model. Which means it gives wrong total count and total page.
>
> After seeing this post from Dan Kubb delving deeper into the problems
> with raw sql in dm (and somewhere he mentioning his project Veritas),
> we took his suggestion looked into Sequel, which is pretty strong in
> raw sql (and kinda pales in comparison to DM in pure rubyness and
> automatic migrations). Sequel's pagination is even from an extension
> buitin into the gem, and is also really powerful.
>
> So yes, out of 40 queries, there is one that Datamapper doesn't do, IF
> it has pagination, and failure is on the pagination plugin side, not
> on DM. This is very solid. We also never expect DM to handle this
> custom queries at all. These are not relational data at all, we are
> just using DM for simplicity, and the fact that we are still in closed
> beta stage, and no need for really powerful/horizontal scalable search
> engines/NOSql databases.
>
> As things go, I'll consider this blog post (I am still finishing a
> write up on Coffeescript, Clamato and Cappuccino, so let's see how
> time let's me do them all). It will probably involve the beginning of
> the story, including the myriad of troubles Active Record gave us (we
> never locked back, thanks to this group, which helped us with the
> toughest questions). But I'll let Sequel sink in more, so that I can
> tell a more complete story (hands on Datamapper, Active Record and
> Sequel).
>
> But if more people need more details, possibly an example, i'll be
> glad to show/write them.
>
> Regards,
> - Daniel Ribeiro
>
> On Sep 14, 9:56 pm, Ted Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hey Daniel,
>
> > Sorry i totally missed your previous replies!
>
> > I'm glad to hear that it (sort of) worked for you.  The sorting on queries
> > is indeed one of DM's shortcomings for SQL backends at the moment.  There is
> > some work afoot, and an endpoint for generating query objects for a specific
> > backend (or set of backends), that may make this sort of thing possible (and
> > easy).
>
> > It would be awesome to see a write up on this subject, just so if people
> > encounter this, they know how you solved it!  This would make a great blog
> > post :D
>
> > -Ted
>
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Daniel Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Actually Ted, it does work, even with limit and offset, provided you
> > > add a dummy field that is computed on the sql query, and is null for
> > > all instances, but yes, it does work.
>
> > > The gem Sequel has more support for these things, but for the time
> > > being, it will do.
>
> > > Thanks again.
>
> > > On Sep 13, 2:31 am, Daniel Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Actually, spoke a bit too soon. The paging works, however, it messes
> > > > up ordered results. Which is really sad when the order is defined by a
> > > > sql function, and not a field of the model.
>
> > > > Well, guess adapting the paging will be the only way out....
>
> > > > On Sep 13, 2:21 am, Daniel Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Thank you a lot. It works great after a simple find_by_sql. It will
> > > > > not work on queries that do not return models, but so far so good. By
> > > > > the time we need to return something other than models, we will be in
> > > > > so much trouble that we will probably have to look into mongodb/riak/
> > > > > couchdb, and paging will be the least of our problems.
>
> > > > > Great tip!
>
> > > > > On Sep 13, 12:25 am, Ted Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Hey Daniel,
>
> > > > > > I haven't seen/used dm-pager, but if it functions on collections in
> > > memory,
> > > > > > the dm-ar-finders wrap the results from SQL queries.  If however it
> > > relies
> > > > > > on addind the limit and offset flags for a query, this won't work.
>
> > > > > > On Sep 12, 2010 11:08 PM, "Daniel Ribeiro" <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:> We use dm-pager to do pagination, and it has worked wonders so 
> > > far.
> > > > > > > However, it doesn't work on direct queries made through
> > > > > > > repository.adapter. Is there another plugin/fork that enables it?
>
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