My partner in crime Luis and I stayed up until 5AM last night trudging through the slimy bogs of a PostGresQL database install for my ‘secret’ Sinatra app. We embarked on our voyage around midnight. Prior to our trek, he advised I use DataMapper, a Ruby wrapper to allow me to indulge gluttonously in object-oriented conversations with the database. “Heroku makes it really easy to set up a PostGresQL”, he stated. “” Unfortunately, what transpired next was little short of footslogging through a grisly Amazonian jungle.