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Re:My time with Rails is up by vinceguidry on Sunday May 22, 2016 @08:13PM (#11750929)
ActiveRecord is an implementation of the active record pattern. DataMapper is an implementation of the data mapper pattern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mapper_pattern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_record_pattern

Re:My time with Rails is up by lgierth on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:56PM (#11755078)
The ruby lib DataMapper is actually an implementation of the active record pattern too ;) That's one reason to why ROM exists.