Models in Rails are implicit, is this an annoying thing?

Question

Considering models in Rails:

class Organization < ActiveRecord::Base  
    belongs_to :OrgType  
end    

Does it bother you that models in Rails don't include the fields that made the entity? I know this is done for DRY's sake but you have to check the data base tables schema every time you want to check model's fields.

Answer 1

If you prefer a declarative style of ORM model, you might want to check out DataMapper or Sequel, both of which are easy to plug in to Rails 3.

Answer 2

Not annoying for me... ever since I started using the annotate-models gem to automatically add comments to the top of my model files, listing the fields associated with that model.