Re: ORM with convention over configuration?

2007-04-03 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 03 Apr 2007, Dinner wrote: Although I *did* hear that Doug was moth-balling Reactor to work on Transfer... April 1st was two days ago. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to evangelistically utilize extensible systems on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com

Re: ORM with convention over configuration?

2007-04-02 Thread Dinner
On 4/1/07, Damien M wrote: With a site redesign you can do that. That's what I'm looking at myself. That's why I LOVE REACTOR, especially the field alias stuff.. It works either way. Sweet. Reactor for CF will do introspection, and I ain't fooling, you only need the XML stuff if you want

RE: ORM with convention over configuration?

2007-04-01 Thread Damien McKenna
) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 4/1/2007 2:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ORM with convention over configuration? You mean can they adhere to your convention or can they be configured to adhere to a bespoke convention? -Original Message- From: Damien McKenna To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Apr

RE: ORM with convention over configuration?

2007-04-01 Thread Damien McKenna
McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 4/1/2007 12:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ORM with convention over configuration? It there's a way of configuring a convention, that'd be fine. Basically CF is able to obtain all of the metadata from the database so it shouldn't have to be manually

Re: ORM with convention over configuration?

2007-04-01 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Damien McKenna To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Apr 01 17:08:31 2007 Subject: RE: ORM with convention over configuration? It there's a way of configuring a convention, that'd be fine. Basically CF is able to obtain all of the metadata from the database so it shouldn't

Re: ORM with convention over configuration?

2007-04-01 Thread Sean Corfield
On 4/1/07, Damien McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another way to consider this, is an ORM with intelligent defaults. Fusebox 6 looks to be going in this route, that certain configuration items have defaults suitable for most basic usage, allowing you to limit the amount of hardcoding

RE: ORM with convention over configuration?

2007-04-01 Thread Damien McKenna
-Original Message- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 4/1/2007 2:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ORM with convention over configuration? On 4/1/07, Damien McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, current thinking is that you won't *need* XML to write a Fusebox 6

RE: ORM with convention over configuration?

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Watts
It's only current limitation appears to be an inability to deal with tables with more than one primary key. By definition, a table can only have one primary key (which, of course, may consist of more than one field). Rails can't deal with compound keys, which is what I suspect you meant. As I

ORM with convention over configuration?

2007-03-31 Thread Damien McKenna
Do any of the current CF ORMs adhere to the notion of convention over configuration? For example, if I tell them to look at the products table I'd expect a field called id or product_id to be identified as the primary key, other fields ending in _id should be identified as foreign keys, etc,

Re: ORM with convention over configuration?

2007-03-31 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
-Original Message- From: Damien McKenna To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Apr 01 03:20:39 2007 Subject: ORM with convention over configuration? Do any of the current CF ORMs adhere to the notion of convention over configuration? For example, if I tell them to look at the products table I'd expect