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John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker
Chancellor, OrderedList, Inc.

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John Nunemaker is passionate, driven and addicted to new. He is the CTO at Ordered List, where he creates simple, usable websites and web applications. You may remember him from such feature films as RailsTips.org, MongoMapper, HTTParty or the Twitter gem.

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2:50pm Tuesday, 05/17/2011
Why You Should Never Use An ORM
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 Location: Ballroom III
John Nunemaker (OrderedList, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.76, 33 ratings)
Having built two object mappers in Ruby (MongoMapper and ToyStore), I would like to throw out a crazy thought. What if, on your next project, you ditch the ORM. No ActiveRecord. No DataMapper. No anything. Just you and a lower level driver, whispering sweet nothings into Ruby classes and modules. Could you? Would you? DARE you? Read more.
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