Hmm, i get it now. Thanks for the overview Xav. The only source of "hello world" with data-objects its the presentation of EuRuKo
http://euruko2009.org/talks/16-dataobjects/index.html >From the data_objects author himself. 2011/5/5 Xavier (DBIYF) <[email protected]> > > > On 6/05/11 5:22 AM, Israel Ben Guilherme Fonseca wrote: > >> Hello guys, >> >> I have a conceptual question about DataObjects. After some reading i >> figured that the DBI is somewhat old and not recommended anymore, and >> now the standard database acess interface is this guy called DataObjects. >> >> From the github, i can see that the DataObjects project is inside de >> DataMapper project, so was it born a part of the framework? >> > I believe so > > > I'm trying to know what's the standard way of database access on ruby, >> but its really hard to figure it. :P >> > DataObjects is a pretty great way, but probably not the most popular due to > ActiveRecord. There is usually a gem per DB (such as the 'pg' gem or the > 'mysql2' gem), but people rarely use them by themselves - most people use an > ORM such as ActiveRecord > > DataMapper -> DataObjects gem > ActiveRecord -> mysql2, pg, sqlite3 gems > > > >> Java have JDBC, Python DBAPI and thats it. Now with ruby things get a >> bit more complicated... yesterday i thought that was the DBI, but it's >> not. So DataObjects is the one? >> >> And where is the doc about how to use the API? I Didn't find any oficial >> site, or docs in the github (maybe it's my fault, as a ruby noob >> programmer). >> > honestly, the documentation for all the low level drivers is pretty lame. > As above, most people use a higher level ORM, even if they don't use any of > the modelling features and just execute raw SQL through it. This is an area > we would *love* some contribution if you were up for it. > > Xav > > >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "DataMapper" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DataMapper" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en.
