Code Benders

Posted by Taus May 31, 2011

Ruby on Rails makes it easy to bootstrap a greenfield project. Unfortunately not all projects are greenfield, so sometimes you need to work with a legacy database schema. ActiveRecord is a great choice when you have a full control over your database from the very beginning, but what should you do if you need to connect to a database with a schema that isn’t in-line with Rails conventions?

DataMapper Core Contributor and Code Benders team member, Piotr Solnica, has written a great blog post for our partner Engine Yard entitled Using DataMapper and Rails with Legacy Schemas. Read it and you can say goodbye to your fear of inheriting a legacy app.

Posted by Taus March 18, 2011

Piotr Solnica, one of our team members, has just been added to the DataMapper Core Team.  Dan Kubb, the team lead, wrote:

“Piotr has been involved in DataMapper for several years now, and has been doing some amazing work on the DataMapper Property API, heading up our CI server configuration and many other areas… he’s been extremely helpful inside the channel and out.”

Congrats, Piotr… nicely done!