From: snacktime <snacktime@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T04:46:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Rails version of osCommerce in PHP?

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On 10/26/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/05, petermichaux@yahoo.com <petermichaux@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Here is David Heinemeier Hanson's thoughts about why it is best to keep
> > the database dumb
> >
> > http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000516.html
>
> As much as I respect David's work on Rails, he can't be more wrong on
> this matter -- *unless* you're talking a single-app database. The
> moment you need more than one application talking to your database,
> those constraints he considers "wrong" are vital.
>
> There are a number of good reasons to have strong constraint support
> in the database. I mostly agree with him about putting business logic
> in the database -- but that's triggers and stored procedures, not
> constraints. There are, however, times when it is important to have
> that sort of behaviour available.
>

Frankly, I trust postgresql more than I do rails to ensure the integrity of
my data. I'll keep my constraints thank you:)

Chris

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