It's more important to have unit tests than to have a clean domain
model - safe refactoring is probably the biggest benefit, but there
are others.  I suggest that you listen to Ben's advice.

On Jun 11, 3:28 pm, chitech <[email protected]> wrote:
> The decision to fluent switch is that we don't want activerecord
> attributes in our domainmodel. We want it to be clean. Another point
> is strong-typed maps for easy refactoring later.
>
> On 11 Jun., 14:36, Ben Hyrman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Well, then I would start by making sure you have covering unit tests
> > for your current persistence and retrieval calls. Then convert one by
> > one and make sure your tests stay green. If I may, though, what's the
> > compelling desire to switch to Fluent NHibernate? I haven't tried it
> > or thought about it much, but I would think it'd be painless to use
> > FNH to handle NH config in Castle and then just keep ActiveRecord for
> > the data access.
>
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:04 AM, chitech<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > It's not hand-written but from ActiveRecord. What do you mean with all
> > > tests pass? If you mean unittest we have not implement unitest yet.
> > > (only a few)
>
> > > On 10 Jun., 15:19, Ben Hyrman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> You can tell it to export the maps on the config. It'll be hard to
> > >> hand-diff them because I can pretty much guarantee they will look
> > >> different from your hand-written ones. But, you could read them at
> > >> least.
>
> > >> Personally, I would start with the fluent config and keep all of your
> > >> existing hbm files. Ensure that all tests pass. Then, choose one to
> > >> convert from hbm to fluent. Ensure that hbm is no longer set to
> > >> embedded resource. Clean, compile, ensure tests pass, continue.
>
> > >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:03 AM, chitech<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> > Thx for the answers. I will try to do it be myself. How can I be sure
> > >> > that the remap is consistent with the existing hbm files? Am I rigth
> > >> > that fluent generate hbm files in memory? If this is true I can't
> > >> > compare the old hbm (Generated by ActiveRecord) and the new hbm
> > >> > (Generated by Fluent)
>
> > >> > On 10 Jun., 12:16, David Perfors <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> >> It will do you good :)
> > >> >> We spend a morning to remap our domain to fluent nhibernate with two
> > >> >> people.. he didn't know anything about fluent nhibernate and I taught
> > >> >> him the essentials that where needed. (we converted 59 hbm files, from
> > >> >> which some had more than one class to map..)
>
> > >> >> On Jun 9, 10:22 pm, James Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> >> > Not automatically, no. They're easy to write though, and the 
> > >> >> > practice will
> > >> >> > do you good :)
>
> > >> >> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:17 PM, chitech <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> >> > > Alo
>
> > >> >> > > We have a existing application using NHibernate. The generated hbm
> > >> >> > > files comes from Castle ActiveRecord. Is it possible to convert 
> > >> >> > > the
> > >> >> > > existing hbm files to fluent Map classes?- Hide quoted text -
>
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