On Saturday, December 1, 2012 4:17:10 PM UTC+1, Perry Smith wrote: > On Dec 1, 2012, at 7:30 AM, solnic wrote: > > > > > Hey Perry, > > > > > > DM1 implements Active Record pattern so there's no big difference between > > DM1 and ActiveRecord in Rails from the app's design point of view. You > > *can* separate persistence concerns from domain logic using either DM1 or > > AR; however, it adds a lot of extra work so you should really think if > > that's what you need. > > > > > > It's also probably worth to mention that DM1's development is no longer > > very active. We're busy working on the next major version of DM which > > implements Data Mapper pattern and that's probably something you're looking > > for unfortunately it's not finished yet. > > > > > > If you want to learn about DM 2.0 you can check out my slides from > > RubyShift conf: > > https://speakerdeck.com/solnic/datamapper-2-an-object-mapping-toolkit > > > > Thank you immensely. Things make much more sense now. It was DM 2.0 that > was being mentioned in the other sources. > > > > Is it too early to use DM 2? As I said, my current project is mostly to > learn. I'd be more than happy to piddle and play and provide some feedback. > I usually use Postgres
It is too early. If things go well we will release an alpha in December and it'll be perfect time for testing things out and providing feedback :) Currently development takes place in https://github.com/solnic/dm-mapper and https://github.com/mbj/dm-session. cheers # solnic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/datamapper/-/gbzcjr2qQ_cJ. To post to this group, send email to datamapper@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to datamapper+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en.
