[Catalyst] ActiveRecord for Perl

[mla]

John Napiorkowski wrote:
> --- Eduard Giménez <egimenez at capside.com> 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.
>> Why not simply colaborate to extend DBIx?
> 
> Just as a followup to that, you should really try to
> write a list of everything you think is missing from
> DBIx and discuss it over on the project mailing list. 
> The framework is designed around a component
> architecture so it's straightforward to add or alter
> features.  I find it unlikely you will be able to
> match it's features without more than a year of
> consistent effort.

Okay, thanks. I will do that. I'm mainly looking to
strip features, not match them.

> Some of the validation stuff that AR does for you
> could be handled by some hacking on DBIC::Validation
> although to be honest good design would preclude
> wanted to put all your validation in the physical
> model class.

Agreed.

Maurice