From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T00:48:41+09:00
Subject: Re: possibly bulletproof eval()

On Jul 17, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Ryan Davis wrote:

>
> 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).

That's true.  I handle it just like you do.

I made my assumption about how he was doing it from his comment, "I'm  
converting images on a filesystem into blobs in a database."

James Edward Gray II