[Catalyst] ActiveRecord for Perl

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:33:37AM +0200, Adam Bartosik wrote:
> >I'm considering trying to port Ruby's ActiveRecord to Perl
> >as a lightweight ORM option (with some small changes
> >maybe, like composite PKs). If anyone's interested, toss
> >me a message privately and we'll coordinate.
> 
> What I found missing in DBIx::Class is AR method find_by_sql(sql).
> We use catalyst&dbix for months (kind of data-warehouse project), but 
> rewriting complex, read-only SQL statements to dbix/perl notation is for 
> me a waste of time (when editing & updating tables with ORM is so fast 
> to code and intuitive).

What would that achieve that passing literal SQL chunks for SELECT, FROM,
WHERE etc. wouldn't?

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