I like ORMs for doing the things for me like making objects and converting dates and other data to DB ready form and vice versa. I do not like them querying. Th

I like ORMs for doing the things for me like making objects and converting dates and other data to DB ready form and vice versa. I do not like them querying. The premise with ORMs is that you should be able to query pretty much anything easily. The reality is that almost all of the time you are doing something you don't have many distinct queries. You have a few reads and writes that you have to do. Things that are easily done in SQL with full expressiveness and efficiency. So now my pattern is to use for example ActiveModel in Ruby for the models, but not ActiveRecord for the persistence part.