From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T04:47:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Using YAML as a data DSL

On 6/14/06, Kirk Haines <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 June 2006 11:26 am, Jatinder Singh wrote:
>
> > YAML provides a way to persist objects in text format which is I believe
> > very user friendly, so what I thought is that a user can create a file with
> > above contents and then use YAML::load method to load above file's content
> > in to ruby object.

I have found that when not using a database with ROR you lose a lot of
nice automation provided by ActiveRecord. I have in fact been
wondering what I'd have to do to make a datasource that looks like a
database to Rails but is in fact just an array. Specifically I'd like
to still be able to use scaffolds and other generators.

The only suggestion I have seen in this regard is to make MEMORY
tables using MySQL, but they don't seem to support auto-increment
fields for some reason so I can't use them.

Any ideas in that regard?