RubyGems is great for sharing Ruby code libraries.

Just for fun, I thought I’d play with the idea of using rubygems for packaging up .NET libraries. After a few hours of messing about, I finally have this.

Just the other day, I thought I’d try the latest IronRuby to see if I could start using this and Rake in my .NET projects. Low and behold, it’s working great :)

If you’ve ever used Ruby on Rails you’ll be aware of the goodness that is script/console. The console lets you interact with your domain model from a terminal - no need for dedicated GUI screens or tools.

In a current solution we’re testing our NHibernate app against an SQLite (in-memory) databases. The database is created from scratch before each test runs. This guarantees that each individual test gets it’s own fresh copy of the DB.

I recently remembered this old NHibernate query trick:

var found = UoW.Session.CreateQuery("from Object o").List();

I often see code that looks a bit like this:

public ActionResult UpdatePost(int id, FormCollection form)

Here’s a simple solution I just thought up for when you have multiple developers working on a project, and you want each to have their own connection string in Web.config (under source control).

NHibernate in Action went on sale only three months ago, and the book team has turned it’s attention to a 2nd edition. The first step is for us to plan what the new version of the book will entail. So – dear readers – I’d like to get your opinion on this. What would you like to see in the 2nd edition?

Today I was helping a friend with an NHibernate app, and noticed an opportunity to shorten some Repository code.

I was looking to see if there’s anything like NHibernate in the Ruby world. With Ruby on Rails, ActiveRecord is the king of persistence. I thought it would be interesting to poke around at other Ruby ORMS to see what I could find.

Here’s some live sparklines of NHibernate related projects activity over 7 days. They’re updated hourly.

I’ve just started updating NHForge, which is the new home for the NHibernate community. It was something I’ve wanted to look at for a while, although the book has been eating much spare time.

And it looks b.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l :)

Last night I read all about operations databases in the Release It! book. I wish I’d read it 5 years ago. An OpsDb should allow you to monitor, analyze and forecast system stability.

People often have the perception that NHibernate is some honking great behemoth of a library that should only used in massive enterprise apps.

I’m currently editing Chapter 5 for NHibernate in Action (we hope to be in print in a 2-4 weeks, so this is the last time!).

Leveraging code written by other developers is a big big deal.

You can ship more features in less time.

I just blogged that I’m interested in using IQueryable for my repositories, so I can do this kind of thing:

Usually when I write repositories, I end up with code like this:

IList<Order> orders = repos.FindOrdersByStatus(OrderStatus.Packed);

NHibernate Deep Grok launched just under a month ago. Today, there are 200 NHiberntae specific resources covered, and google has found 21,700 documents in the index.

Tonights little browse around Google Code Search has found a cool looking project: Jobvertizer (that’s to browse code, project home page is here).

This google code search is fun! It shows 728 results for c# IRepository interfaces used in OS projects.

As any subscribers to NHForge will know, I recently announced a new NHibernate resource - NHibernate Deep Grok.

Udi Dahan wrote an interesting post about how to create fully encapsulated domain models. The post, example code, and comments are all really interesting.

I recently chatted about DDD Repositories and services with Jimmy Bogard and Colin Jack.

It’s good to see posts about Fluent NHibernate popping up. The NHibernate FAQ blog is running a good series of articles showing various mapping techniques and usage scenarios….

Chad Myers points out a fluent way of configuring NHibernate on his blog. Nice!

I’ve recently been wanting to learn more about LINQ for NHibernate.

Fluent NHibernate is a tool that lets you easily write NHibernate mappings.

If you’re working with NHibernate, you may realize you have several options for defining your mappings.