From: eain.jones@...
Date: 2006-02-08T18:53:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Start from the start - Ruby or ruby on rails

Thanks to everybody for the recommendations. I had a lot of the links
lined up and ready to read , will jump into rails straight away. I am
still a little reluctant to start off my first real project with a
Database back end.I'm concerned that the design and management of the
database could add a serious jump in my already steep learning curve.

If anybody has the time would the be kind enough to outline the pro's
of using a database agains the cons of xml.

My initial thoughts when choosing xml was that it is easily
manipulated, can be easily accessed by other applications and that if
in the future i did want to go to a database it would lend itself to
migration?