From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2004-12-21T23:09:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Rails-Tutorial On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:03:41 +0900, Dick Davies wrote: > * Sarah Tanembaum [1237 12:37]: >> Tim Bates wrote: >>> The tutorial is out-of-date. The development database is only >>> required for Rails versions 0.9 and later. >> Is there any recent tutorials? One other question is, what would >> be better database to use with ruby in term of support and active >> development -- MySQL or PostgreSQL? >> I know that many has manage quite easily to use MySQL with PHP. >> Thanks > I think 99% of the net reads 'sql' as 'mysql', so if you are > putting a database together then probably try that. Just because > you'll find more howtos for it, etc. Not at all. A lot of FOSS developers use MySQL because it was easy and cheap to set up, but most folks either (a) don't know about databases or (b) have experienced real databases in some form or another (a lot of people end up using databases at work). MySQL is perhaps the worst database that I've ever used which has an SQL interface (I once had to use Excel as a "database"; MySQL is perhaps better than that). -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca