I started playing more with Sinatra, and I have so many ideas for it’s usage.  At work I’m using to prototype a quick way to enable remote execution of .Net command line apps.  So I started looking into DataMapper as well to use with it.

So far I can’t get the datamapper gem to install on either XP or Ubuntu.  It gives me the same compilation errors on either platform.  I realize the problem is that I’m missing some software I need to build, but it still seems like a hassle.  Active record “just works”.