From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2009-08-13T22:33:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Destroying related objects doubt ... basic oop question

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Mike Stephens<rubfor@recitel.net> wrote:

> I just would suggest to people: don't use Activerecord etc unless you
> have a deep urge to do so. It's not the 'correct' way to do things; just
> one possible approach. Whatever arguments you make for controlling data
> from your Ruby program can be countered by at least as many that say you
> should leave that to the database.

No, really, they can't. Whether you use an ORM, or whether you use a
lower-level database API and have your Ruby program use SQL directly
(which is, after all, what your ORM is doing "behind the scenes") the
data is stilling being controlled by the Ruby program.