From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T00:42:57+09:00
Subject: Re: possibly bulletproof eval()


On Jul 17, 2007, at 06:42 , James Edward Gray II wrote:

> My database teacher use to harp on and on about how file data  
> belonged in the file system (not a database).  His primary  
> reasoning was that you can't meaningfully query it so you don't  
> gain anything from the database structure.  I've also found that  
> things get complicated as soon as I have a large enough file stored  
> in a database.

Agreed, but you can't tell from his code sample that he's not doing  
that already. We've got a similar model class (tree of classes  
actually) whose @content doesn't go the db but gets saved in a  
after_save handler instead. He might just be storing the useful stuff  
in the db (dimensions, size, mimetype, and just having a row so  
tagging and other referential things can happen).