From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T21:28:07+09:00
Subject: Re: rails is awesome

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:23:09 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson
<david@loudthinking.com> wrote:
> > Essentially, David, this is a *problem* with ActiveRecord.
> > ActiveRecord is in the wrong here if it's being case-sensitive to
> > the database's meta-data in the general case.
> 
> Active Record places a number of naming constraints of your database.
> Just treat the forced lower-case as one such. In the databases where Id
> is the same as ID and credit_ratings as CREDIT_RATINGS, it should then
> be no problem to rename the fields. For cases where it is significant,
> like the database I choose to use for all my projects, it's nice just
> to be consistent and not have code to massage cases.

When you select the metadata from Oracle, if you have not quoted your
table names when creating them, they will be returned all uppercase.

Thus, ActiveRecord is broken for any likely Oracle application.

-austin
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