ORMs are just like databases really. There's a good way and there's a bad way. It's not the ORM that causes problems, it's all about the mindset of thinking th

ORMs are just like databases really. There's a good way and there's a bad way. It's not the ORM that causes problems, it's all about the mindset of thinking that you don't have to worry about anything because the ORM will have your back anyway. I use ActiveRecord in Rails every day and there's a lot of things it just does right. It abstracts certain things I wouldn't want to constantly have to worry about and gives me a fine-grained enough layer of control over the queries that I can actually get all the expressiveness and power I need from the records. Like they say, don't throw the baby with the bath water my friend.