Not too Java-y, but too "DataMapper-y" for most Rails devs, I think (the pattern...

Not too Java-y, but too "DataMapper-y" for most Rails devs, I think (the pattern, not the ORM - the Ruby DataMapper ORM implements the ActiveRecord pattern, though DataMapper 2 actually finally will implement DataMapper)

EDIT: This is an interesting overview of where DataMapper 2 is going as a parallel to your example: http://solnic.eu/2012/01/10/ruby-datamapper-status.html