From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T22:19:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Rails version of osCommerce in PHP?

On 10/26/05, Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net> wrote:
>> On 10/26/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
> As far as I can tell, you have a moot point: David assumes the
> ApplicationDatabase pattern.

That's why, in part, I put the caveat in there. I still think that his
position is a mistake, even for a single-app database, but it's less
problematic.

> Plus, I am sure he could be more wrong-- give him time ;-)

I'm not sure on that.

>>> 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.
> There are a number of good reasons for strong typing too.

Good thing Ruby has strong typing, then.

-austin
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