[Catalyst] ActiveRecord for Perl

[Perrin Harkins]

On 5/22/07, mreece at vinq.com <mreece at vinq.com> wrote:
> one thing i really like about AR is the association proxies, where
> relationships themselves are objects you can call methods (ie, find) on
>
>   class User < ActiveRecord::Base
>     has_many :items
>   end
>   class Item < ActiveRecord::Base
>     belongs_to :user
>   end
>
>   items = user.items
>   item = user.items.find(params[:id])
>   new_item = user.items.create!(params[:item])

The functionality you're describing is available in all of the ORMs,
including Class::DBI.  I don't know if any of them chose to model the
relationship as a separate object though.  I can't really see the
appeal myself, but to each their own.  Maybe the RDBO object manager
class is more your style.

- Perrin