From: Jonas Hartmann <Mail@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T02:38:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

Rich Morin wrote:
> At 1:57 AM +0900 9/13/06, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> MySQL is a big sticking pile that should be left in the scrapheap.
> 
> No, really, tell us how you REALLY feel about it. (:-).
> 
> 
> FWIW, a friend of mine is a seasoned DB programmer who migrated
> from Oracle to PostgreSQL a few years ago.  He says similar things
> about MySQL.  Worse, however, he says that RoR is destined to be
> saddled with MySQL workarounds far into the future.  Consequently,
> he dismisses Rails as a whole, which is a shame.
> 
> Given that RoR is extremely modular, I see no real reason why this
> must be the case.  If some folks that are sharp in both PostgreSQL
> and Ruby (note: I am not one :-) were willing to make the effort,
> AR could be enhanced (or replaced, if need be) to provide clean DB
> semantics.
> 
> Until that time, the AR/MySQL hegemony will continue to dominate
> RoR practice.  As they say, an ounce of implementation trumps a
> pound of rhetoric...
> 
> -r
cant u run RoR with postgre sql adapter already? thought you could...

disadvantages?

regards
  Jonas