Re:The State of Ruby ORM
by grandalf on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @01:40PM
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Fair point. Why don't you create a gist with an example of what the model + hint declarations would look like in separate classes. I'm not convinced that this distinction matters, but I'm sure the DM developers would respectfully take a close look at your insights. They are a really great group, very helpful on IRC, etc.
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I would if I had time. Or they could just read the chapter of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture that they took the name from - it's the chapter right after Active Record :) Page 165. Martin Fowler went into a decent amount of depth in describing the pattern. His site also has a decent summary available for free.
I don't think this is exactly is lack of awareness on their part, though - as someone else has pointed out, Datamapper actually implements the Active Record pattern. Structurally the two are very different.