Videos tagged with DataMapper

Some might think of DataMapper as a better, faster, competitor to ActiveRecord. However, they would be missing on of its greatest strengths. At its core, DataMapper provides a uniform interface on top of ANY persistance layer. All thats needed is a simple adapter class that can translate the native persitance into a simple 4-method API for DataMapper to consume. This talk will cover that API, a...

The third edition of Rails will see an overhaul of the framework to merge the philosophies and features of the Merb framework into Rails. Among other things, that includes providing support for ORMs like DataMapper, Sequel (and even Hibernate!) and for JavaScript libraries like jQuery and Dojo. It will define an explicit public API for users and plugins, backed up by a test suite. It will have ...

Ruby Anvil promises to be the rails/merb equivalent framework for Ruby. By borrowing the ideas and knowledge accumulated from both frameworks, we can utilize Ruby to create yet another framework for developers and build desktop applications with ease, speed and beautiful code. In this talk I’d like to discuss some of my plans for the future of Ruby Anvil and what is currently being develo...

The talk will discuss integrating DataMapper into Ruby web frameworks, and using DataMapper models in controllers or as resources in Rails or Merb. It will also discuss using ActiveRecord and DataMapper side-by-side, either in an integrated project or in the process of migrating an existing Rails app over to DataMapper. by Yehuda Katz