From: Jim Menard Date: 2008-12-21T22:24:27+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby and Rails supported on 10gen On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Jim Menard wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:19 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > wrote: > >> Am I the only one who thinks "supports Rails" and "does not yet include >> ActiveRecord" are an oxymoron? ActiveRecord is the *core* of Rails, is >> it not? > > Actually, you can run Rails without ActiveRecord just fine. Rails has > been designed that way. For an example app that uses the Mongo > database (http://www.mongodb.org), see > https://github.com/jimm/rorob/tree/master. Oops. That should be http://github.com/jimm/10gen-rorob/tree > > On the other hand, internally we have a subset of ActiveRecord working > already and are working on supporting as much of it as makes sense > with a non-relational database. I already have the Rails app from > "Agile Web Development With Rails" running unchanged. > > On the gripping hand, you can run the 10gen cloud yourself, in which > case you can run it with MySQL or any other relational database. In > that case, you can use ActiveRecord unchanged. > > Jim > -- > Jim Menard, jimm@io.com, jim.menard@gmail.com > http://www.io.com/~jimm/ > -- Jim Menard, jimm@io.com, jim.menard@gmail.com http://www.io.com/~jimm/