From: Charles Roper <reachme@...>
Date: 2010-10-07T01:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ODBC app in Ruby - I don't believe it.

On 6 October 2010 08:40, Dave Howell <groups.2009a@grandfenwick.net> wrote:
> Now, everything comes in pieces, and you have to snap it together yourself, and there's just so much more opportunity for things to not fit together correctly.

Rails originally started out as being (very) opinionated (not so much
nowadays, esp. since v3). You used the stack it provided and built
your app in a certain way. That has changed quite a bit now, but much
of it still applies. That's where the thing about 'legacy' databases
comes from. If you're using a database that doesn't fit the Rails
mould it's most likely to be an old, legacy database. If you
intentionally don't use the Rails mould and create a db in *your*
mould, then there's not a lot of point in using Rails because its
strength is in its opionionatedness and it's probably worth
investigating the alternatives.

This interview with DHH gives some insight into this thinking:

http://www.oreillynet.com/network/2005/08/30/ruby-rails-david-heinemeier-hansson.html

Charles