From: Paul <paul.vaillant@...>
Date: 2005-10-26T06:52:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Rails version of osCommerce in PHP?

Per what a number of others have discussed, auditing/triggers are
better done in the application layer. In particular, for portibility,
MySQL < 5.0 doesn't have support for triggers, and most databases that
support triggers support them in their own way vs in the application
layer were it is consistent regardless of database.

Also, I'm thinking that it doesn't hurt to borrow functionality ideas
from as many projects as possible, but borrowing actual structure and
code can lead to being restricted by the other projects design
desicions and in particular, limitations in the implementation language
which might be other then ruby.