Re: some questions

[Arjuna Christensen <aj@junglist.gen.nz>]

'lo!

On 23/04/2009, at 7:45 PM, David Lee wrote:

> Adam Jacob wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:17 PM, David Lee <david.lee@kanji.com.au>  
> > wrote:
> > > As a side note, there's no ORM for chef is there? IE, rather than  
> > > being able
> > > to use something like ActiveRecord, the complexity Miguel is  
> > > flagging must
> > > be dealt with directly via ferret searches(?)
> > I'm not sure I understand how the search indexes help solve  
> > Miguel's problem?
>
> I was just curious about how difficult the implementation is likely  
> to be. An ActiveRecord, with polymorphic joins etc, would likely  
> require less work than one using native database interaction.

Less work than simple RESTful requests?

> But I gather it would have to be built directly on top of couch; I  
> have little sense of the difficulty involved at this point, and I'm  
> curious.

We've already built a layer on top of couch, chef::couchdb - I too am  
not sure what you're getting at here?

I have done a little work replacing chef::rest and chef::couchdb with  
Heroku's Rest Client[1] and jchris' CouchRest[2], and the CouchRest  
extended document class is quite ORMy, creates a few default views  
(Obj.all, ..) and has the  validation system from DataMapper ported  
across to it.

I believe Adam was working on an Opscode wrapper[3] for Rest Client  
that would give it some capabilities we require for communications wit  
the chef-server.

Regards,

AJ

[1] http://tr.im/juz5
[2] http://tr.im/juzh
[3] http://tr.im/juzu