So lately I have been trying to improve/rewrite the blog software that I use for this blog in rails 3. Everything is all good for the most part in rails 3. Easily choose your orm, your javascript library, your template language etc.

But I have just tried to write this blog engine as a rails 3 engine, and it seems at least in this respect that the orm is a second class citizen.

My preference for a development stack is datamapper + haml + sass + jquery (as you can see not very rails default). And it seems to be a pain to get datamapper to behave as a rails 3 engine. I could debug it, and maybe I will, but I would rather spend my time building the actual application, than finding out why the tools I am building it with don't work.

Anyway, I just thought I would vent a bit.