Akelos vs. Cake: Let me eat Cake.

I’m still drinking the Ruby Kool Aid, but when I have to PHP in my own well:

class User extends AppModel
{
    var $name = 'User';
    var $primaryKey = 'user_id';
    var $useDbConfig = 'alternate';
}

— Cake: easy as pie. Image may be NSFW.
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class User extends ActiveRecord
{
    function init ($attributes = array())
    {
        parent::init($attributes);
        $this->setPrimaryKey('user_id');
    }

    function setConnection ($dsn = null, $connection_id = null)
    {
        $this->_db =& Ak::db('mysql://user:password@localhost/alternate', 'usersalt');
    }
}

— Akelos: more like a PITA.