Sequel is wonderful and for me represents a much more natural way to program than both heavy and lightweight ORMs (hibernate and AR).
There's a lot of syntax magic going on to give the appearance of a clean SQL DSL, but it leaks through more often than not. Still, better than anything else I've seen.
What's up with the presentation and meaningless photos taking up all the space? Black text on a white background and nothing else would be a lot better.
As a sort of meta-commentary, why is this presentation two hundred and twenty four (224!) slides long? Am I alone in thinking this is totally, absurdly unreasonable?
It was very tightly delivered. It is pretty amazing that it either is the case or appears that Jeremy knows exactly what slide is going to follow the current one, sentence to sentence. For a one-hour-ish talk, that means many slides last less than thirty seconds.
This is meant to be delivered rather than read, but in retrospect the delivery was, in and of itself, rather incredible.
I switched from ActiveRecord to Sequel about a year ago because I needed good support for composite primary keys, and I've never looked back. It's a phenomenal library, highly recommended.
Sequel is somewhat lowest-level and least advertised of three popular ruby ORMs (ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Sequel). For non-CRUD applications Sequel is usually my go-to guy.
Unfortunately, I can't read this as the site is utterly and completely broken on my iPhone. I'm usually able to ignore rendering issues but this really takes the cake.
I'm sorry. The presentation was built with Scott Chacon's showoff library (https://github.com/schacon/showoff), which I assumed would handle cross browser issues well. I don't have an iPhone or a Mac, so I couldn't test it there.
Use the cursor keys (right is forward and left is back) to browse through the slides and I had to go into fullscreen mode to see the comments at the bottom of the page.
I switched from AR to Sequel about 3 years ago and haven't looked back. It's a far superior ORM and much easier to extend than AR. Jeremy is an excellent steward of the project.
There's a lot of syntax magic going on to give the appearance of a clean SQL DSL, but it leaks through more often than not. Still, better than anything else I've seen.
What's up with the presentation and meaningless photos taking up all the space? Black text on a white background and nothing else would be a lot better.