Ive come up with a plan, im going to use active record for this  
project at first, once the project is in production and has some use,  
ill make a git branch and play with datamapper, see if what pleasure,  
or pain is bring, performance testing is my main interest really..

On 8 Nov 2009, at 16:12, Mike Barton wrote:

>
> I've tried DM a bit. I had some problems trying to some third party
> plugins as many assume the availability of ActiveRecord methods.
>
> On Nov 8, 12:29 am, Alex Barlow <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey, yeah its great on its own or with merb,
>>
>> Yeah I love the no migrations, the only thing i use alot i suppose it
>> doesn't have is "rake db:create"
>>
>> Im sort of asking what peoples experience of it is, perhaps stories  
>> of
>> anyone using it with rails, for example i have to extend test:unit  
>> and
>> change rails slightly to get normal rails testing.
>>
>> I also love the pure ruby syntax, meaning i can use postgres to start
>> and move to mysql is a client wants or vice versa.
>>
>> Just opinions im looking for really?
>>
>> On 7 Nov 2009, at 22:14, Ashley Moran wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 7 Nov 2009, at 10:43, Alex Barlow wrote:
>>
>>>> Has anyone has experience using data-mapper for a rails project.
>>
>>> Hi Alex
>>
>>> Not Rails (as I don't use it), but I've used it a lot in Merb apps.
>>
>>>> Ive been using it for a while in Sinatra and in scripts, its  
>>>> blazing
>>>> fast, has no migrations
>>
>>> There is dm-migrations, which I use.  Not sure why you're saying  
>>> that
>>> as a good thing though!  Do you mean you like auto-migrations?
>>
>>>> and everything seems great.
>>
>>>> I can see a problem though, gems which rely on active record,
>>>> paperclip, sunspot etc
>>
>>> Hmmm, are you really asking if DataMapper is suitable for Rails, or
>>> for larger projects?
>>
>>> Ashley
>>
>>> --
>>> http://www.patchspace.co.uk/
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran
> >


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