On Tuesday 03 October 2006 18:55, Tony Eviston wrote: > I don't mind if others want to go down the RoR or whatever object > oriented route but please don't make it compulsory.
RoR always uses a plain SQL based server as backend with ordinary table structure. It just makes it a *lot* easier - to safely access those tables - to navigate complex relationships between tables - to automatically map user interface elements to tables - to enforce pre- and post conditions (eg before/after insert, update, delete) It also creates an abstract layer making you independent of a specific SQL backend = makes your data easily portable form one backend to another; you could just use it for moving data from MS-SQL to PostgreSQL with utmost ease if you wanted. You can still do all this manually from any language you want. It is just a lot harder and a lot more work and you forfeit a few nice features that make it safer to work collaboratively. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
