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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" 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/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
