Sam Minnee, CTO SilverStripe
Basic framework that SilverStripe has developed to quicken/ease/help Object relationships. The slides were put together well, so I'll just refer to it:
http://www.silverstripe.com/rails-envy
High level overview, code needs to be optimized, but is interesting nonetheless. Basic approach is to use __call() to create magic methods that are implicitly defined.
