A
couple of
months ago,
Ola Bini coined the idea of
ActiveHibernate as
an extra
option when running Rails on
JRuby (
complementary to ActiveRecord-JDBC).
After some debug
sessions through the Hibernate and JRuby code I have
convinced myself that this is
indeed a
nice and feasable project
to start (or try to, at least). As
Ola mentioned there are
two parts to this:
- Configure/tweak Hibernate to let it work directly with the org.jruby.RubyObject class. I'm already impressed by the clean internal design of the Hibernate code, and the possibility to plug in custom implementations of Hibernate interfaces through the hbm.xml mapping files.
- Provide a Rubyish interface to the Hibernate configuration and functionality, following the fine Ruby on Rails tradition.
Point one seems the hardest to me, as I would like to keep the number of changes to org.hibernate (and org.jruby) code very low. None if possible (?). For the second point, ActiveRecord, Grails' O/R mapper (GORM) and Hibernate Annotations can serve as examples to learn from. I'm also looking forward to IronRuby to see if it could be married to NHibernate in a similar way.
As soon as I have something up and running I'll post the code to SourceForge, or RubyForge, or ... What would be the most appropriate hosting site for this kind of project?
