Anthony Gardner wrote: > Thank you for that gentlemen. I had a play with it last night and got it > working but the main thing is ..... I understand how it's working. > > As with everything new, is there a time to use it and a time to just use > DBI (for example)? > > Is ORM only useful for large projects or would you recommend trying to > fit it in to everything you do with a DB?
Depends :) There's a startup overhead which can be a bit of a pain, although on a reasonably fast machine it's not too noticeable these days. I tend to use it for everything, but that's largely because I can knock out a bunch of DBIC classes and a script to use them just as fast as I could do a simple DBI script, and I don't have to worry about typo-ing any SQL (which of course is only runtime checked whereas the perl parser makes a pretty good go of showing up my typos at startup time :) _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class Wiki: http://dbix-class.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/ IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/trunk/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
