BTW, Hobo 1.0 has includes database-agnostic indexing options for Hobofields. Matt Jones did an excellent job of adding features that cover most needs.
See his tutorial, # 25 in: http://hobocentral.net/books/rapid-rails-with-hobo.pdf -Owen On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:31 PM, MartOn <[email protected]> wrote: > As long as you try to stay out of custom SQL queries and try to use > ActiveRecords features for filtering/query the database you will be > database independent for a longer time. That means changing SQL server > type is basically to reconfigure the database.yml file in config. and > migrate data. > I recommend reading the Model chapters from Rails guides, starting > with migrations: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/migrations.html > Even though Hobo simplifies this, it does not hurt do have basic > knowledge of ActiveRecord. > > If you want to apply database constraints on top of ActiveRecord, you > will have to make a database choice at some point or find plugins that > helps creating database constraints and still be database independent. > > /MartOn > > On Mar 1, 5:56 pm, Wildman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the tip...I ought to have tried a simple rails app first. > > It was probably an issue with the path to the application; after some > > adjustments based on what I could see from the rails intro page, I was > > able to get it to run. Very impressive and simple. > > > > The other possibility is that rails needed to complete it's config and > > creating that first rails app took care of that (where you get to the > > rails 'success' page)? > > > > The most confusing part was the mass of sql lite errors...anyways, > > I'll be able to experiment more now. > > > > Is it fairly simple to migrate to an alternate db from sqlite? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hobo Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<hobousers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > -- Thanks, - Owen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
