My point was just that you removed the key features and soul of ActiveRecord. Without these features it's just like any other ORM library.
That's a good point. I haven't had any experience with other ORM libraries, so ActiveRecord was the closest thing that came to mind.
I definitely do want to eventually capture some of ActiveRecord's features, but probably not all of them. I feel like the solution should be implemented in a way that fits well with a statically typed language, so I'll definitely have to drop some of the features. It won't be quite as nice to use, but it will be simpler in dome ways, which is one of my primary goals as a developer. Tools like ActiveRecord are more fun to use, but thinking of all the hash table lookups makes me cringe. :)
If and when the library matures, though, I might think about adding some more ActiveRecord-like features if enough people miss them.