From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2005-10-28T19:21:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Rails version of osCommerce in PHP?

David Heinemeier Hansson [mailto:david.heinemeier@gmail.com] 

#Foreign keys work just fine with Active Record, they're just not
#currently dumped in the Ruby-representation of the schema (an
#optional, but very nice feature). 

ah, thanks. the feature can really help.

#But neither are stored procedures,
#constraints in general, views, etc. 

not interested in them really. but it helps to know. Just imagine if you're perfect app got screwed because of some lousy dba script and you never knew!

#So the Ruby-representation is for
#application-database designs that are uninterested in having a clever
#database.

agree. we app programmers care less on the database. But let us face it, dba's have become powerful (they even get more pay). And it pays to know how they are getting clever w my db. If my db fails, so does my app. If i can get the fullschema, all one has to do is compare the dba constraints with my app constraints.. It's unit testing again at the business level.. Having control of both the app and the db makes the app programmer king again!

#Composite primary keys are not supported at all right now.

fr the rate rails is advancing, i do not think i have to worry much :-)

btw, i showed my kid how to do some rails thingy and he was really amused. We laughed and laughed. You should see how a boy laughs. I was overjoyed.

thanks for rails and all the rails developers (thanks to ruby & ruby community too).

kind regards -botp


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#David Heinemeier Hansson