Migration from ActiveRecord to DataMapper. Who tried it?

Rails
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Hey there,

the Datamapper ORM had my attention lately and the syntax and methods
seem quite similar to activerecord. Even validations could be converted
without much hassle.

The migration-free model changes sound like a dream.

Has anyone tried it and succeeded? Or are there other experiences with
DataMapper in Rails?

Just courious…

Stefan

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On 07 Aug 2008, at 16:04, Stefan B. wrote:

the Datamapper ORM had my attention lately and the syntax and methods
seem quite similar to activerecord. Even validations could be
converted
without much hassle.

The migration-free model changes sound like a dream.

Has anyone tried it and succeeded? Or are there other experiences with
DataMapper in Rails?

There’s a post about it, but I haven’t tried it myself:
http://bustoutsolutions.com/blog/2007/09/17/getting-started-with-datamapper-and-rails/

It would indeed be nice if you could just distribute a rails app that
could be just uploaded to a server (running mod_rails) and on first
connect would ask for a database name and then automigrate.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt