ARel was initially written outside of Rails Core (by Nick Kallen, just before he joined Twitter iirc). It was a continuation of his work on the named_scope plu

ARel was initially written outside of Rails Core (by Nick Kallen, just before he joined Twitter iirc). It was a continuation of his work on the named_scope plugin. No one's ego had anything to do with it. FWIW, I used both Sequel and DataMapper in various internal projects. I didn't like either for various reasons. Different strokes...