Re: "findOrCreateBy"

Scott Burch wrote:
> My understanding was that GORM Labs was created as a testing ground for
> new Gorm functionality and not necessarily a place for convenience
> methods.  
>

GORM Labs is created by me (not by anyone associated with the Grails core) as basically a place to
drop in API extensions that seem like a good idea at the time.

It's actually not very transient, and I've dropped the "Labs" name and scary wording for similar
plugins (e.g. Sublog) because I think it's driving more people away than is fair.  The warning in
the description was mainly because I'm not giving any guaranties that any particular API in there is
a great idea.  And if it turns out to be *really* stupid, there's a possibility it'll get axed.
Nothing's been axed so far, but I want to reserve the right to axe the API on a major release.

The one thing I will say is that more than Autobase and more than the new Sublog and more than any
other plugin or open source software I've written, GORM Labs is supported through active work on my
billable projects.  This is at least partially because extending GORM is a lot easier than working
in the Autobase niche, so when I estimate hours to implement functionality, my clients tend to be
willing to throw the money at it for the win down the line.  It's also at least partially due to my
clients having a strong confidence in my GORM-wrangling skills: so far, I've only been stumped with
implementing "hasOne" (think "belongsTo" with the id on the other side of the
relationship)—everything else has gone well.  BTW, have I mentioned I'm offering retainer services[1]?

[1] http://smokejumperit.com/grails-retainer/

~~ Robert Fischer, Smokejumper IT Consulting.
Enfranchised Mind Blog http://EnfranchisedMind.com/blog

Check out my book, "Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL"!
http://www.smokejumperit.com/redirect.html

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this list, please visit:

    http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email