the data access abstraction layer is absolutely the "right" move. just hard to stomach the amount of work involved that's ultimately kind of throw-away. the pr

the data access abstraction layer is absolutely the "right" move. just hard to stomach the amount of work involved that's ultimately kind of throw-away. the problem with activerecord is most people usually don't put this in place to begin with because the active record pattern makes it easy not to, which creates a massive pile of spaghetti code long term.