On Apr 17, 11:26 am, Sam Smoot <ssm... / gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 17, 8:37 am, Luis Lavena <luislav... / gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Bruce Williams :http://codefluency.com/
> > Rails fame, Validatable all fame, father of the validations in
> > projects like DataMapper and Sequel (but not the implementer) --
> > anyway, they split from the path long ago.
>
> > HTH,
> > --
> > Luis Lavena
>
> I could be wrong, the project might have changed hands for all I know,
> but I think you're thinking of Jay Fields:http://blog.jayfields.com/
>

Damn google, always return things out of context. Bruce is paginator
gem, Jay Fields is validatable.

Sorry guys for the noise!

> ...and just to set the record straight, DM's validations started out
> custom, implementing Martin Fowler's idea of Contextual Validations,
> though to be fair, 90%+ of the syntax was borrowed from Rails. Then we
> switched to Validatable, which seemed like a good idea at the time,
> but required overwriting a good bit of the Validatable code. Now we've
> gone back to the original DM validations and just filled in the areas
> we didn't cover so well before.
>

Can I win the worst post/reply/rant prize? please :-)

I sometimes make mistakes on my review of things, and ended with
statements no longer are valid. Thank you for clarify those Sam.

> Now I've got a little transcoding to do, and then it's all DM, all day
> hopefully. ;-)
>

Anxiety is driving me crazy. want to start using DM 0.9 now! :-D

> Oh yeah, Adam Keys is a great guy. Organizes a lot of Ruby related
> events around Dallas. Spreads the knowledge. Brilliantly smart. OTOH
> his love of Rails frustrates me to no end. :-D

Yes, Pat mention it previous... too bad I couldn't assist on any of
these events :-P

Thank you Sam for your clarifications :-)

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena