From: Anthony Eden <anthonyeden@...>
Date: 2008-07-23T22:02:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and RDBS

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:56 AM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 23:45:15 Thilanka Marasinghe wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to learn ruby and want to am into database and data mining
>> development and am curious if I could combine both together
>
> The Rails community seems to want to avoid writing any SQL at all, and would
> rather work with document databases (things like ThruDB, SimpleDB, and
> BigTable).

Eh? ActiveRecord is tightly tied to SQL. The fact that it provides an
interface that attempts to minimize the use of SQL doesn't change the
fact that underneath it all is heaps and heaps of SQL that is
generated. Additionally BigTable and SimpleDB are not document
databases.

Sincerely,
Anthony Eden