From: David Naseby <naseby@...>
Date: 2005-10-04T06:01:20+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveRecord and FXRuby..

On 10/4/05, Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/3/05, Graham Foster <nowahere@home.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason why I can't use ActiveRecord to help build a client
> > based app with FXRuby? If I'm understanding all this MVC stuff correctly,
> > then I'd just be using the M bit in another app. Seems like it would save
> > me a shed-load of work
> > True?
>
> ActiveRecord is the ORM layer used by Rails, right? I don't think
> there's any technical reason why this wouldn't work, although I don't
> know that anyone's actually tried that yet. At any rate, I'd
> appreciate hearing about your experience with it (especially if you
> run into any conflicts between FXRuby and ActiveRecord).
>

I've built a beer brewing helper in FXRuby/ActiveRecord with a SQLite
db to keep it all nice and file-y. No problems, no conflicts. Almost
got to the stage where I built scaffolding, before I remembered I was
building the program to help me brew beer, rather than brewing beer to
help me program.

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David Naseby
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