The only good ORM I've used is Rail's ActiveRecord. Sure there are gotchas you need to know about, maybe it's just experience, but I find these to be a non-issu

The only good ORM I've used is Rail's ActiveRecord. Sure there are gotchas you need to know about, maybe it's just experience, but I find these to be a non-issue. Every other ORM in other languages I've tried seems to have WTF moments. It could be that Ruby is a dynamic enough language that it allows you to work around these things easily, that stricter languages do not.