One might argue that merb should provide the to_xml method, another would argue that datamapper should provide it. I’m happy to see you are active in both projects, maybe you could take this problem as your child.. :)

My suggestion is that Datamapper, in any method that returns an array of persistent objects, it instead returns a custom collection — like an association collection — that has the to_xml method, among others.

I’d like to hear your thoughts, or if there is already work on this, thanks!

You almost make me wish we weren’t mid-stream on a rails project at work. At some point we might pull out the intensive load controllers into mongrel handlers or merb, but now I want to try a full resourcy project in it.

I guess I’ll have to work on a personal project or something,