From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T14:11:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails DB convention info is a big fat secret??

Dave Howell wrote:

> I started learning Ruby in part so I could do some web scripting, and 
> have already twice tried installing Rails, with my usual catastrophic 
> installer-malfunction-experiences with Ruby-related material. (I like 
> Ruby, but I *hate* having to install it.) At the moment I have a brand 
> new XServe with a nice fresh install of stuff. I have not yet tortured 
> it (and myself) with Ruby or Rails yet.

My recommendation: Use DarwinPorts to install Ruby, RubyGems, and your 
DB, and use RubyGems to install Rails and any other Ruby libraries, and 
you'll be much happier. (Fink might be fine, instead of DP; never used it.)

> that foreign keys have to be [tablename][underscore]"id", and (a 
> secret exclusively in Hick's article), linking tables must be named 
> after the two tables to which they link, and in alphabetical order!

Have you been to http://api.rubyonrails.org/ ?

Also, please check out the Rails mailing list.

And welcome to the fold! Sort of!

Devin