Suppose that I don't know anything about Ruby, Ruby On Rails or ActiveRecord except for the horror stories that roam the interwebs. How would you explain "single table inheritance", "composed_of" and "various other bells and whistles" in terms that make sense to the outside world?

Basically, if you can tell us what the SQL statements are and possibly even how the object API is, maybe we can find equivalent things in the Perl world.

Possibly, DBIx::Class does lots of what you want, but then again, I've become a friend of raw SQL for anything less trivial than updating a single column or row, because ORM wrappers don't work for me.

In reply to Re: Object Persistence, Moose and playing nicely with ActiveRecord by Corion
in thread Object Persistence, Moose and playing nicely with ActiveRecord by pdcawley

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