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Re: [NWRUG] Re: DataMapper & Rails

alexbarlo...@me.com (Alex Barlow) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 18:17:41 UT

Ive come up with a plan, im going to use active record for this
project at first, once the project is in production and has some use,
ill make a git branch and play with datamapper, see if what pleasure,
or pain is bring, performance testing is my main interest really..

Re: DataMapper & Rails

barton.mich...@gmail.com (Mike Barton) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 16:12:14 UT

I've tried DM a bit. I had some problems trying to some third party
plugins as many assume the availability of ActiveRecord methods.

Re: [NWRUG] Re: DataMapper & Rails

alexbarlo...@me.com (Alex Barlow) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 00:29:43 UT

Hey, yeah its great on its own or with merb,

Yeah I love the no migrations, the only thing i use alot i suppose it
doesn't have is "rake db:create"

Im sort of asking what peoples experience of it is, perhaps stories of
anyone using it with rails, for example i have to extend test:unit and

Re: [NWRUG] DataMapper & Rails

ashley.mo...@patchspace.co.uk (Ashley Moran) — Sat, 11 Nov 2009 22:14:35 UT

Hi Alex
Not Rails (as I don't use it), but I've used it a lot in Merb apps.
There is dm-migrations, which I use. Not sure why you're saying that
as a good thing though! Do you mean you like auto-migrations?
Hmmm, are you really asking if DataMapper is suitable for Rails, or
for larger projects?

DataMapper & Rails

alexbarlo...@me.com (Alex Barlow) — Sat, 11 Nov 2009 10:43:40 UT

Has anyone has experience using data-mapper for a rails project.
Ive been using it for a while in Sinatra and in scripts, its blazing
fast, has no migrations and everything seems great.
I can see a problem though, gems which rely on active record,
paperclip, sunspot etc
Any thoughts?

Re: [NWRUG] Many many sprouts.

ashley.mo...@patchspace.co.uk (Ashley Moran) — Sat, 11 Nov 2009 00:18:28 UT

I got sprouts in my veg box this week. And for only the second time
in 27 years of being alive, I actually like them.
I'll join in the fun. As long as I don't have to wear a Santa hat.
Anywhere that serves decent meat dishes.
Nope not a clue. I'm terrible at organising events. Over to you =)
Ash

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Talks in November/December

rop...@gmail.com (Mihai Anca) — Wed, 10 Oct 2009 17:57:29 UT

Code dojo looks really interesting, I agree with trying it.

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Talks in November/December

rop...@gmail.com (Mihai Anca) — Wed, 10 Oct 2009 17:21:16 UT

I also agree with plan B

Many many sprouts.

w...@willj.net (Will Jessop) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 23:58:04 UT

Does anyone fancy a NWRUG Christmas do?
If there's enough interest i'll look into arranging one.
Any preferences as to Location, price, general timing etc?
Anyone organised one of these before and got any advice?*
Will.
* Other than 'do it in September' :)

Re: [NWRUG] Small contract project

alexbarlo...@me.com (Alex Barlow) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 11:46:28 UT

I would be interested in doing this for sure.

alexbarlo...@me.com
07826621151

Cheers, Alex

Small contract project

david.smalley.li...@googlemail.com (David Smalley) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 11:44:43 UT

I wanted to check with the group to see if anyone has some time for
some contract work at the moment.
Back in January I led a project to try and get an ecommerce website up
and running using Spree[1] for the non-profit Just Coffee People[2]
based in Leeds. They are a social enterprise who in their own words

Anyone else had a play with Limelight?

biot...@gmail.com (doug livesey) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 10:33:41 UT

[link]
Started to have a play with it last night, and it looks pretty cool.
Not sure where best to fit the "M" in "MVC" in, yet, but pretty cool.
Doug.

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Using ActiveResource classes in Cucumber -- stubbing the JSON returned? Or something ...

biot...@gmail.com (doug livesey) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 15:52:43 UT

Caius Durling suggested the fakeweb gem on the cukes mailing list, and that
seems to be the answer!
Cheers,
Doug.

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Using ActiveResource classes in Cucumber -- stubbing the JSON returned? Or something ...

alexbarlo...@me.com (Alex Barlow) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 15:23:22 UT

Hmm, not quite sure how you would go about this either to be perfectly
honest.

Personally its the way i would go about remote admin anyway, i assume
that is what your trying to achieve?

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Using ActiveResource classes in Cucumber -- stubbing the JSON returned? Or something ...

biot...@gmail.com (doug livesey) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:07 UT

Sure -- the class looks like this:

class PreTimesheet < ActiveResource::Base
self.site = '[link]
self.user = 'user'
self.password = 'password'
self.format = :json
end

And one of my efforts to stub the return values looks like this:

class PreTimesheet < ActiveResource::Base